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  Ram Dass

  Acceptance, Family Love, Thinking

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• Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.

  Ruth Stout

  Philosophical, Beats, Farmers

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Use, Limits

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

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• The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Reality, People, Factories

  "Jonathan Safran Foer on 'Eating Animals'". Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2009.

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• My advice to anyone who wants to join in on farming is diversify. Nature is diversified, and I know you'll always have a core thing that you'll really like, but hang stuff around the edges of it. It will make your place more interesting for people to come to, and it's a lot easier to sell something else to an existing customer.

  Joel Salatin

  People, Interesting, Advice

  Interview with Malcolm Jolley, www.goodfoodrevolution.com.

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• If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

  Larry Page

  Growth, Our Society, Problem

  "20 Things I’ve Learned From Larry Page" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2015.

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• In the rush to industrialize farming, we've lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of relationships, not an individual ingredient or commodity.

  Dan Barber

  Agriculture, Understanding, Ingredients

  Dan Barber (2014). “The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food”, p.120, Penguin

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• And I have to tell you, as tough as farming is, the idea of farming when you’re losing money year after year... that’s not life even, that’s like death. That’s eternal damnation.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Years, Ideas, Damnation

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2008). “The Off Season”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Ignorance, Opportunity, Animal

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). “Eating Animals”, p.208, Penguin UK

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• You know what would help this boy?" Demeter mused. "Farming." Persephone rolled her eyes. "Mother-" "Six months behind a plow. Excellent character building.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Character, Eye

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• In many developing countries, girls don't go to school. They stay home. They are at the water wells, bringing water back and forth to the village. Or they are doing chores, preparing meals, farming. Some cultures think girls and women shouldn't be educated, and those are very often the places where the treatment of women and girls is the worst.

  Laura Bush

  Girl, Country, Home

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: “Education Is The Key”". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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• We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden on rural America, decrease human rights abuses, improve publish health, and help eliminate the most systematic animal abuse in history.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, America, Rights

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• Of all the systems of the body - neurological, cognitive, special, sensory - the cardiological system is the most sensitive and easily disturbed. The role of society must be to shelter these systems from infection and decay, or else the future of the human race is at stake. Like a summer fruit that is protected from insect invasion, bruising, and rot by the whole mechanism of modern farming; so must we protect the heart.

  Lauren Oliver

  Summer, Heart, Race

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.47, Harper Collins

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• The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.

  Wendell Berry

  Community, Age, Care

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.70, Counterpoint

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• So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.

  Bill Bryson

  Powerful, Beer, Eight

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• The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the sprouts of vine and bush and tree, are trying to take the fields. Farmers must fight them with harrow and plow and hoe; they must plant the good seeds quickly.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Weed, Spring, Fighting

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1933). “Farmer Boy”

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• Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.

  Garrison Keillor

  Sports, Hard Work, Fate

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• Women have an important role in agriculture. We need to introduce technology, which will help us harness the potential of women in agriculture. We need to divide the agriculture sector into three parts- regular farming, farming of trees and animal husbandry. If we are able to do this, the contribution of our women will increase even more.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, Animal, Agriculture

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• Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize its the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?

  Randall Munroe

  Men, Games, Networking

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• I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.

  Jessica Lynch

  Jobs, Virginia, Community

  "I'm Jessica Lynch and Here's My Real Story" by Abigail Pesta, www.glamour.com. June 3, 2007.

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• A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income

  John F. Kennedy

  Income, Revolution, Harness

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• Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henhouse. Fathers suddenly gained a function, and could do what only women had been able to do for all those millions of years--point at a child and say, "That is my son," "That is my daughter." Patriarchy quickly followed, beginning about five thousand years ago; a very short time in the development of our species, but covering all of recorded history.

  Frank Pittman

  Daughter, Children, Father

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• For the first time in our history, the winners of the White House Turkey Pardon were chosen through a highly competitive online vote. And once again, Nate Silver completely nailed it. The guy is amazing.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Nature, Turkeys

  "Obama pardons two Thanksgiving turkeys with mercy and humour" by Adam Gabbatt, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2012.

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• The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of love even amidst the ruins. This is a terrifying, heart-breaking and, ultimately, important book.

  Junot Diaz

  Book, Heart, Echoes

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• There is a very strong deal for our farmers to start with. So from the export of farming, which is being looked at to make up some of the lost ground from the resources boom, to just about every area.

  Andrew Robb

  Strong, Lost, Resources

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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