Farmers Quotes - Page 13

Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results are arranged for the convenience of research, not according to the needs of the farmer.

Masanobu Fukuoka

Law, Needs, Pieces

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Many people think that when we practice agriculture, nature is helping us in our efforts to grow food. This is an exclusively human-centered viewpoint... we should instead, realize that we are receiving that which nature decides to give us. A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being. The farmer has very little influence over that process... other than being there and doing his or her small part.

Masanobu Fukuoka

Thinking, Practice, Agriculture

"Masanobu Fukuoka: Japanese Organic Farmer". Interview with Larry Korn, www.motherearthnews.com. July/August 1982.

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There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song

Masanobu Fukuoka

Song, Writing, Agriculture

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You know what the best kind of organic certification would be? Make an unannounced visit to a farm and take a good long look at the farmer’s bookshelf. Because what you’re feeding your emotions and thoughts is what this is really all about. The way I produce a chicken is an extension of my worldview. You can learn more about that by seeing what’s sitting on my bookshelf than having me fill out a whole bunch of forms.

Joel Salatin

Long, Would Be, Looks

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If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

John Maynard Keynes

Wise, Morning, Rain

"Will the real Keynes stand up, not this sad caricature?" by Will Hutton, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2008.

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If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those who have reached the pinnacle of fame or fortune, even the most frivolous of society women - if they knew what profound inner pleasure awaits those who gaze at the heavens, then France, nay, the whole of Europe, would be covered with telescopes instead of bayonets, thereby promoting universal happiness and peace.

Camille Flammarion

Teacher, Mean, Independent

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Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy - let's imagine we have two farms, and that's the whole world, just two farms. If one of those farmers gets unemployment benefits, who do you think pays for him? Am I going way over your heads today?

Arthur Laffer

Thinking, Two, Giving

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Farmers buy a lot of computers.

Seymour Cray

Computer

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To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units, and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

Matthew Scully

Animal, Honor, Factories

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Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won't soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.

Keith Donohue

New Orleans, America, Grace

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Those who believe that we have reached the limit of business progress and employment opportunity in this country are like the farmer who had two windmills and pulled one down because he was afraid there was not enough wind for both.

Morris S. Tremaine

Inspirational, Country, Business

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Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.

Ludwig von Mises

Freedom, Entrepreneur, Liberty

Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.333, Lulu Press, Inc

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I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays.

J. C. Ryle

Prayer, Reading, Sunday

J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep.

Henry David Thoreau

Love, Business, Philosophy

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.300, Penguin

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NASCAR is a bunch of farmers driving around in circles.

Eddie Irvine

Circles, Driving, Nascar

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When I visited coffee farms in Ethiopia, the farmers could not believe we spend a week's wages in their country on a cup of coffee in ours, because they see so little of the profits. Oxfam's fair trade campaign helps right this wrong.

Colin Firth

Country, Coffee, Believe

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The farmers markets were another step to giving people an opportunity to take more power over their own lives-and also to provide another outlet for organic produce. That is important because the production and distribution of food is increasingly being monopolized and controlled by large corporate structures, large financial structures.

Jerry Brown

Opportunity, People, Giving

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My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people.

Khalil Gibran

Morning, Sheep, People

Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.

Kushal Pal Singh

Mean, Emotional, Land

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American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.

R. James Woolsey, Jr.

War, Commitment, Corn

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As a farmer, man himself became closely attached to the landscape, firmly rooted to the soil that supported him. At times the soil seemed bountiful and kindly and again stubborn and unfriendly, but it was always a challenge to man's cunning.

Charles Kellogg

Men, Challenges, Stubborn

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Farmers present by themselves the basic force of the national movement. Without farmers there can be no strong national movement. This is what we mean when we say that the nationalist question, is actually, the farmers' question.

Joseph Stalin

Strong, Mean, Ukraine

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As powerful as the power of positive thoughts are, depression biologically interferes with the brain's ability to maintain a positive thought for any period of time. Like the farmer who casts his seed upon the rocks, all the positive thoughts in the world presented to the depressed mind will not bear fruit.

Harold H. Bloomfield

Depression, Powerful, Rocks

Harold H. Bloomfield, Peter McWilliams (1996). “How to Heal Depression”, Mary Book / Prelude Pr

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In the wild, an enoki mushroom is often squat-looking and its stem is rarely more than twice as long as the cap is wide. When they are grown by farmers and hobbyists, however, their stems elongate, the caps are smaller, and a forest of golden colored needle-like mushrooms shoot up all at once.

Paul Stamets

Mushrooms, Long, Golden

"Can Eating Enoki Mushrooms Lower Your Cancer Risk?" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2013.

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I observed that the successful farmer worked at his job. He would do his plowing, disking, harrowing, seeding, and harvesting in the proper season and at the proper time, while his neighbor was procrastinating, or off hunting and fishing while the work was still to be done. We must learn to set our priorities straight. No one can be successful in his line of work unless he works at it in the proper season and plays in the proper season.

Nathan Eldon Tanner

Jobs, Successful, Hunting

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