Farming Quotes - Page 8

• Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Business, Men

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• A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Modesty, Farmers, Dependent

  Bharati Mukherjee (2007). “Jasmine”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.

  W. H. Auden

  Healing, Heart, Night

  Another Time (1940) "In Memory of W. B. Yeats"

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• Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cheating, Car, Mayors

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.248, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life by neighbors who are no longer strangers, but friends who delight in the edible rewards offered from a garden they discovered together. Imagine small strips of land between apartment buildings that have been turned into vegetable gardens, and urban orchards planted at schools and churches to grow food for our communities. The seeds of the urban farming movement already are growing within our reality.

  Greg Peterson

  School, Reality, Garden

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• Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.

  William McKinley

  Long Ago, Competition, Would Be

  William McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.543, tredition

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• We are living as if we had three planets' worth of resources to live with rather than just one. We need to cut by about two-thirds our ecological footprint. For that we need one planet farming as well as one planet living - one planet farming which minimises the impact on the environment of food production and consumption, and which maximises its contribution to renewal of the natural environment

  David Miliband

  Cutting, Impact, Two

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• We've got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays and we hate him!

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Hate, Gay, Cowboy

  "Alec Baldwin Calls Hank Williams Jr. a 'Senile, Racist Coot'" by Seth Abramovitch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 4, 2012.

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• ...there's no such thing as sustainability. There are just levels of it. It's a process, not a real goal. All you can do is work toward it. There's no such thing as any sustainable economy. The only thing I know that's even close to sustainable economic activity would be organic farming on a very small scale or hunting and gathering on a very small scale. And manufacturing, you end up with way more waste than you end up with finished product. It's totally unsustainable. It's just the way it is.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Business, Real, Hunting

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• Software touches all of these different things you use, and tech companies are revolutionizing all different areas of the world...from how we shop to how farming works, all these things that aren't technical are being turned upside down by software. So being able to play in that universe really makes a difference.

  Drew Houston

  Play, Differences, Making A Difference

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• In our society, we move people out of government. It's all operated by machines, meaning – not the people, just the products: the farming, the agriculture, the production – it's all machine-designed and programming. But it does not program or design people. People are free to live whatever lifestyle they want to. If they hurt other people, they're helped – they’re not put in prisons

  Jacque Fresco

  Hurt, Moving, Government

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• You can be entrepreneurial even if you don’t want to be in business. You can be a social entrepreneur focused on the not-for-profit sector. You can be an agriculture entrepreneur if you want to change how people think about farming. You can be a policy entrepreneur if you want to go into government. The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.

  Steve Case

  Business, Thinking, Ideas

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• The fortunate and successful New Urbanists will be the ones who can find local infill projects in small towns and small cities associated with farming, water transport, (perhaps rail too) and water power. I do not believe personally that we will retrofit much of suburbia in the way many people wish we might. The capital won't be there, and I'm rather convinced that the population is headed down - though this will be a lagging effect, because even starving people have sex.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Sex, Believe, Successful

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

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• For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity.

  Patricia Penton Leimbach

  Adversity, Everyday, Vexation

  Patricia Penton Leimbach (1987). “All my meadows”, Harpercollins

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• The status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home, and only socialism can save them from this. They will only be completely emancipated when we change from small-scale individual farming to collective farming and collective working of the land.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Home, Land, Socialism

  "First All-Russia Congress of Working Women". Speech on November 19, 1918, published on Pravda No. 253, November 22, 1918. Collected Works, Volume 28, pages 180-182, www.marxists.org.

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• Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.

  Anne Tyler

  Weed, Men, Vegetables

  Anne Tyler (1992). “If Morning Ever Comes”

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• I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Mother, Family Love, Unity

  "Beyonce Knowles: It's Possible to Balance Work and Family" by celebrity-mania.com, March 2, 2011.

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• Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

  Wendell Berry

  Reason, Should, Interest

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

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• Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming. They keep the farms and slaughterhouses in places that most people never visit; they execute huge marketing campaigns in an effort to make animal production look like a happy, nice, benign institution.

  Moby

  Powerful, Nice, Animal

  VegNews Interview, www.vegnews.com. December 1, 2008.

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• I think a legitimate target is the enemy and [the] enemy is basically in uniform, but not all [are] in Uniform. For example in the rural areas, our judgement is that virtually the whole farming community is part of the South African Defence Force.

  Joe Slovo

  Thinking, Community, Judgement

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• There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...

  Vita Sackville-West

  Years, Patterns, Farmers

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• The biggest thing right now, is supporting the people who take care of the environment. We must take care of the people who take care of the land. And so, if 20% of the population is in school, and they are asked to buy this food from farms. I mean at the real cost without a middleman, it could be amazing. It could change farming overnight.

  Alice Waters

  Real, School, Mean

  Source: www.salon.com

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• We need to realize that these industrial methods of farming have gotten us used to cheap food. The corollary of cheap food is low wages. What we need to do in an era when the price of food is going up is pay better wages. A living wage is an absolutely integral part of a modern food system, because you can't expect people to eat properly and eat in a sustainable way if you pay them nothing. In fact, it's cheap food that subsidized the exploitation of American workers for a very long time, and that's always been an aim of cheap food.

  Raj Patel

  Long, People, Realizing

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• I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers.

  John Adams

  Family, Home, Boys

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• Even if you live in New York City, you can have a little basil plant in your window, and that could be considered urban farming.

  Novella Carpenter

  Urban, Window, Plant

  Source: www.progressive.org

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