Farms Quotes - Page 24

• There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth thistles as soil erosion devastates formerly arable land and deserts overtake fertile farms. Rivers and the atmosphere are polluted thoughtlessly and we are fearful of the consequences of a depleted ozone layer and the devastation of the greenhouse effect. We are not quite at home in our world, and somewhere in each of us there is a nostalgia for a paradise that has been lost.

  Desmond Tutu

  Home, Rivers, Ozone

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• What, then, is the effect of pesticides? Pesticides have created a legacy of pain, and misery, and death for farm workers and consumers alike. The crop which poses the greatest danger, and the focus of our struggle, is the table grape crop. These pesticides soak the fields. Drift with the wind, pollute the water, and are eaten by unwitting consumers. These poisons are designed to kill, and pose a very real threat to consumers and farm workers alike.

  Cesar Chavez

  Pain, Real, Struggle

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.264, Penguin

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• It is an indication of the extent to which people are now isolated from the animals they eat that children brought up on storybooks that lead them to think of a farm as a place where animals wander around freely in idyllic conditions might be able to live out their entire lives without ever being forced to revise this rosy image.

  Peter Singer

  Children, Animal, Thinking

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• A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school,preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Team, Fall, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.129, Penguin

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• According to the 'food waste pyramid', ensuring that food is eaten by people is the top priority. Failing that, the next best thing is to feed it to farm animals.

  Tristram Stuart

  Animal, Pyramids, People

  "Food redistribution is a win-win solution for food waste" by Tristram Stuart, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Even people who are aware that the traditional family farm has been taken over by big business interests, and that some questionable experiments go on in laboratories, cling to a vague belief that conditions cannot be too bad, or else the government or the animal welfare societies would have done something about it.

  Peter Singer

  Taken, Animal, Government

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• Rome wasn't built in a day, and we won't replace fossil fuels with clean energy based on the events of a single week, either. But the important thing to remember is that, once they happen, clean energy victories are irreversible. No one will tear down wind farms because they are nostalgic for fracking in our watersheds. And nobody will pull down their solar panels because they miss having mercury in their tuna or asthma inhalers for their kids. Because once we leave fossil fuels behind, we are never going back.

  Michael Brune

  Kids, Wind Farms, Rome

  "The Road Ahead (And Some Bumps Along the Way)" by Michael Brune, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2013.

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• The farms you live in will be yours for free. When mineworkers strike, it will be to complain that we are giving them too much money.

  Julius Malema

  Giving, Voting, Complaining

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• A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Shopping, Needs, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.104

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• I'm very comfortable with horses. I love horses and I have grown up around farm-hands. There's something very universal about anyone who's on horseback night and day. When you get off that horse, you are still walking as if there's still a horse between your legs.

  Heath Ledger

  Horse, Night, Hands

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I had to drive to Minneapolis once, and went on a back road just to see the country. But there was nothing to see. It's just flat and hot, and full of corn and soybeans and hogs. Every once in a while you come across a farm or some dead little town where the liveliest thing is the flies.

  Bill Bryson

  Country, Soybeans, Littles

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.5, VNR AG

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• What?s wrong about eating cows? What do you think god made them for? Their big, their stupid, their delicious. You want more reasons? I never met an animal more prepared to die than a cow. Next time you go to the farm look at a cow in the eyes, it is begging you for a bullet.

  Paul Rodriguez

  Stupid, Eye, Thinking

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• Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm

  Don Marquis

  New York, People, Trying

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• I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.

  Jim Davis

  Children, Heart, Boys

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• No wonder the tulip is the patron flower of Holland. Looking at it one almost smells fresh paint laid on in generous brilliance: doors, blinds, whole houses, canal boats, pails, farm wagons - all painted in greens, blues, reds, pinks, yellows.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Flower, Smell, Doors

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (1976). “Personal geography: almost an autobiography”, Stephen Greene Press

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• Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

  James Wright

  Lying, Islands, Hammocks

  James Wright (2011). “The Branch Will Not Break: Poems”, p.16, Wesleyan University Press

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• The way an old dog finds his way back over miles and miles to his home when somebody trues to shove him off on a farm someplace, that is how I find my way back to the library. It's my place, even more than my place is.

  Chris Lynch

  Dog, Book, Home

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• The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of children, the instruction and government of servants, are as deserving of scientific treatment and scientific professors and lectureships as are the care of farms, the management of manure and crops, and the raising and care of stock.

  Catharine Beecher

  Children, Home, Government

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1872). “Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage”, p.26

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• At times the [radio telescope] records exhibited a feature characteristic of interference, occurring some time later than the passage of the two known sources. This intermittent feature was curious, and I recall saying once that we would have to investigate the origin of that interference some day. We joked that it was probably due to the faulty ignition of some farm hand returning from a date.

  Kenneth Franklin

  Hands, Two, Records

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• For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this precinct, they go for nothing; are of no use in the farm, in the forest, in the market, in war, in the nuptial society, in the literary or scientific circle, at sea, in friendship, in the heaven of thought or virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, War, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.94, 谷月社

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• A man that advances in spiritual and in temporal matters at the same time, minding to keep the spiritual first, will not let the temporal lead him; he will not place his heart upon his farm, his horses, or any possession that he has. He will place his desires in heaven, and will anchor his hope in that eternal soil; and his temporal affairs will come up as he advances in the knowledge of God.

  Jedediah M. Grant

  Spiritual, Horse, Heart

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• The one thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee - they were farmers, professional men, businessmen giving of their time and effort to an idea that became a country - was a nation governed by professional politicians who had an interest in getting re-elected. They probably envisioned a fellow serving a couple of hitches and then eagerly looking forward to getting back to the farm.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Couple, Father

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• Farm animals, like dairy cows - who by nature are vegans - are routinely force-fed fish to increase their weight and milk production.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Weight, Cows

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• Okemah was one of the singingest, square dancingest, drinkingest, yellingest, preachingest, walkingest, talkingest, laughingest, cryingest, shootingest, fist fightingest, bleedingest, gamblingest, gun, club and razor carryingest of our ranch towns and farm towns, because it blossomed out into one of our first Oil Boom Towns.

  Woody Guthrie

  Gun, Squares, Oil

  "Pastures Of Plenty: A Self Portrait". Book by Woody Guthrie, p. 3, 1990.

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• A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.

  S. J. Perelman

  Cities, Wife, Fool

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

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