Farming Quotes - Page 9

• I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Pain, Animal, Meat Industry

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Successful, Cities, Towns

  Source: www.raisethehammer.org

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• Peak oil is already upon us. It is destroying our banking system, that is, our system for marshalling capital, and that is about to put us out of business-as-usual. So, we have to carry on with business-not-so-usual. This could mean anything from your children finding careers in farming (rather than show biz or plastic surgery) to reorganizing households differently to traveling from New York to Boston by boat.

  James Howard Kunstler

  New York, Children, Mean

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.

  Tom Vilsack

  Mom, Fighting, Kansas

  Tom Vilsack's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Unless people can become natural people, there can be neither natural farming nor natural food.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  People, Natural

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• I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Real, Rain, Hard Work

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• Fish farming, even with conventional techniques, changes fish within a few generations from an animal like a wild buffalo or a wildebeest to the equivalent of a domestic cow.

  Charles Clover

  Change, Animal, Cows

  Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.312, Univ of California Press

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• For years now I've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. A bit like a farmer's crop rotation system. Except, instead of wheat, maize, barley, and fallow, mine pretty much goes clothes, makeup shoes, and clothes (I don't bother with fallow). Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Makeup, Years, Shoes

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• Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Morning, Successful, Creating

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.385, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

  Wendell Berry

  May, Urban, Proxy

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after you have growth spurts or lose weight or stop wearing high heels. You keep fitting after you have children or change religions or stop dyeing your hair or quit your job at Goldman Sachs and take up farming. Somehow, God is gracious enough to give us a few of those people, people you can stretch into, people who don't go away, and whom you wouldn't want to go away, even if they offered.

  Lauren F. Winner

  Jobs, Children, Hair

  Lauren F. Winner (2002). “Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life”, p.85, Algonquin Books

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• My priority going forward is to be able to be involved in things like the farm and fighting hunger events, and then doing things to give back to charity, and staying involved in agriculture and farming, and building that.

  Chris Soules

  Fighting, Giving, Priorities

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs and nature. It is not the worst evil we can do, but it is the worst evil we can do to them.

  Matthew Scully

  Animal, Evil, Needs

  Matthew Scully (2011). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.289, Souvenir Press

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• Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

  Sue Hubbell

  Sue Hubbell (2017). “A Book of Bees”, p.43, Open Road Media

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• Urban farming appeals to people on the right and the left. People have different reasons for getting into it. Some people are like doomsdayers, they think there's going to be some horrible catastrophe and how will we survive? And then there's people that are more like, "We want to be socialists and have communal chicken coops." It really runs the whole gamut.

  Novella Carpenter

  Running, Thinking, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• We have to grow our food differently because industrial farming will soon end. That means growing more food locally on smaller farms with more human attention.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Mean, Attention, Growing

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• I don't know Hillary's Clinton stance on urban farming. I don't know Donald Trump's stance or Bernie Sanders's for that matter. But the Obamas have been amazing. You know, Michelle Obama, she planted that garden. She keeps bees there at the White House. Little known fact, though, is that Laura Bush also had an organic garden but she never told anyone about it.

  Novella Carpenter

  Garden, House, Urban

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Zero, Distance, Government

  "Going global: social innovation" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2010.

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• In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

  Tom Vilsack

  Past, Years, United States

  "Rebuilding and Revitalizing America’s Rural Communities" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2010.

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• If you run for election with a particular agenda about saving jobs, about strengthening manufacturing and farming jobs, about tackling predatory gambling and making governments accountable, if there's an opportunity to achieve that agenda with either side of politics, particularly if you come from the political centre, then it's an opportunity you should take up.

  Nick Xenophon

  Running, Jobs, Opportunity

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• It's like if every single male artist dressed up as farmers. In every video they were on a farm. Whether it was Jason Derulo or Oasis, they're always on a tractor, they're always surrounded by sheep and always in boots. And all the songs are about enjoying farming, and this is all you've had for 10 years - you'd think you were going mad.

  Caitlin Moran

  Song, Thinking, Artist

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• My family has spent 400 years farming on the banks of the Rio Grande. We know the value of hard work, love of the community, love for water and land.

  Ken Salazar

  Hard Work, Years, Land

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• Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the Middle Ages - and beyond, since even fire, the wheel and organic farming pose risks, and none would have passed the "absolute safety" test the zealots demand. Putting them in charge now would mean an end to progress, and perpetual deprivation for inhabitants of developing nations.

  Paul Driessen

  Mean, Fire, Safety

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• I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Two, Growth, Stones

  "Sculptor Turns Rain, Ice And Trees Into 'Ephemeral Works'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 8, 2015.

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• Although natural farming - since it can teach people to cultivate a deep understanding of nature - may lead to spiritual insight, it's not strictly a spiritual practice.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Spiritual, Practice, Deep Understanding

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