Farms Quotes - Page 33

• The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Agriculture, People, Factories

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• I got an ant farm; them fellas didn't grow sh*t.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Ants, Grows, Fellas

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• If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow involve within itself a ceremonious generosity toward the wilderness of natural force and instinct. The farm must yield a place to the forest, not as a wood lot, or even as a necessary agricultural principle but as a sacred grove - a place where the Creation is let alone, to serve as instruction, example, refuge; a place for people to go, free of work and presumption, to let themselves alone. (pg. 125, The Body and the Earth)

  Wendell Berry

  Yield, People, Generosity

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• Didn't people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt?

  Nora Roberts

  Army, Animal, People

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• Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery farm in England, people who wouldn't think twice about buying something oven-ready become much more upset about a chicken that they've been on a boat with, so there is probably buried in the Western psyche a deep taboo about eating anything you've been introduced to socially.

  Douglas Adams

  Thinking, Islands, People

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• The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.

  Henry Beston

  Summer, Country, Fall

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• The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)

  Wendell Berry

  People, Mind, Defense

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• There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm

  Stella Gibbons

  Comfort, Cold, Cold Comfort Farm

  Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I'm a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.

  Jimmy Carter

  Heart, Georgia, Peanuts

  "39th U.S. President President Jimmy Carter". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2010.

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• If you care about the animals, actually, organic might not be the best answer because now we have organic feedlots, organic factory farms. If you care about the environment - pesticides, especially - organic is the answer.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Answers, Care

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

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• Every single day we sit down to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted, picked, or harvested by a farm worker. Why is it that the people who do the most sacred work in our nation are the most oppressed, the most exploited?

  Dolores Huerta

  Lunch, People, Breakfast

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• The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.

  Wendell Berry

  Agriculture, Principles, Genius

  "Wendell E. Berry Interview". Interview with Jim Leach, www.neh.gov. 2012.

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• When you take away the subsistence economy, then your farm population is seriously exposed to the vagaries of the larger economy. As it used to be, the subsistence economy carried people through the hard times, and what you might call the housewife's economy of cream and eggs often held these farms and their families together.

  Wendell Berry

  Hard Times, Eggs, People

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• The worst example of rural poverty is that of migrant farm workers. They have no permanent jobs, so they have no equity in the places where they work. They're not shareholders, let alone entrepreneurs. They're not small farmers, they're not market gardeners, they're just temporary - uprooted, isolated, easily exploitable people.

  Wendell Berry

  Jobs, People, Entrepreneur

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• A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.

  Jon Katz

  Dog, Book, Sheep

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• I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county seat.

  June Squibb

  Country, Illinois, Littles

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• People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, “If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it.” They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.

  Heather O'Neill

  Halloween, Kids, Hard Times

  Heather O'Neill (2016). “Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel”, p.13, HarperCollins

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• Gail Anderson-Dargatz has a noticing eye, a voice as unique as the countryside she writes about, and a heart large enough to love her entire cast of distinct and memorable characters. In The Cure for Death by Lightning she fashions an irresistible song out of the joys and dangers of growing up, the mysteries and wonders of life on a farm, the thrilling terror of trying to outrun the awful unseen force that pursues a growing girl. This novel opens a door to a shining, surprising world.

  Jack Hodgins

  Girl, Fashion, Song

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• Barack wants to stop all children from working on the farm... Can you imagine this? I just, I can't fathom that. Did you ever think we’d grow up in America and see something like that? Let me take it one step further. He wants to disallow the 4-H from training children to work on a farm.

  John Raese

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  "John Raese Alludes To Hitler, Claims Obama Wants To Kill 4-H Youth Programs" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2012.

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• I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harvest without even knowing I was learning it. On the farm, you learn early that you reap what you sow.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Law, Knowing, Harvest

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• Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Girl, Blue, Jeans

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• Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would supplement all that with whatever we could kill or catch. Whether we'd kill squirrels, deer, duck, or caught catfish or brim, that was what went on the table.

  Si Robertson

  Garden, Squirrels, Pigs

  "Hey, Look! It's Uncle Si: The Duck Dynasty GQ+A". Interview with Lang Whitaker, www.gq.com. September 4, 2013.

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• We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos.

  Bob Barker

  Zoos, Average, Ideas

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• The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance, and farm infrastructure maintenance.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Maintenance, Use

  "Nature as an Ally: An Interview with Wendell Berry". Interview with Sarah Leonard, www.dissentmagazine.org. Spring 2012.

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• A lot of people come to America all the time for economic opportunities. This country is this huge work farm and you can make a lot of money here.

  Ian Svenonius

  Country, Opportunity, America

  Source: www.avclub.com

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