Best 137 quotes in «farming quotes» category

We got a saying around here about our corn, ‘it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July.

We have been living through a time of sorrow. Our seed remains seed. Our nostrils are dusty.

...when I offered to either stay and help or go bake a pie, it was the pie that was most needed. It took six pies to finish the roof. I had not known that pies were such an important part of construction.

When Geoffrey was away, the goat often took himself off. He had soon got the goats at Granny’s cottage doing his bidding, and Nanny Ogg said once that she had seen what she called ‘that devil goat’ sitting in the middle of a circle of feral goats up in the hills. She named him ‘The Mince of Darkness’ because of his small and twinkling hooves, and added, ‘Not that I don’t like him, stinky as he is. I’ve always been one for the horns, as you might say. Goats is clever. Sheep ain’t. No offence, my dear.

What exactly she was thinking I never knew. Perhaps of the crop and the whole day’s stoking lost. Perhaps of the stranger who had come with his cornet for a day, and then as meaninglessly gone again. For she had been listening too, and she may have understood. A harvest, however lean, is certain every year; but a cornet at night is golden only once. (Cornet at Night)

When a livestock farmer is willing to “practice complexity”—to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed to behave and eat as it evolved to—he will find he has little need for machinery, fertilizer, and, most strikingly, chemicals. He finds he has no sanitation problem or any of the diseases that result from raising a single animal in a crowded monoculture and then feeding it things it wasn’t designed to eat. This is perhaps the greatest efficiency of a farm treated as a biological system: health.

When we destroy the fertile lands, we destroy our own good life!

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

A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.

Why Brownlee left, and where he went, Is a mystery even now. For if a man should have been content It was him; two acres of barley, One of potatoes, four bullocks, A milker, a slated farmhouse. He was last seen going out to plough On a March morning, bright and early. By noon Brownlee was famous; They had found all abandoned, with The last rig unbroken, his pair of black Horses, like man and wife, Shifting their weight from foot to Foot, and gazing into the future.

Wine is a gateway drug to environmentalism.

Your little eco-friendly fairy tale ain’t going to happen. This was farming land long before it was cute-house land.

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

Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved.

As you have sown so shall you reap.

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.

Farming, from an outside perspective, can be viewed as a romantic, free and off-the-grid life, but the constant work of it means a routine you must follow or everyone dies.

Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure.

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.

Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

Farming -- a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it.

Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

From my standpoint, coca should be neither destroyed nor completely legalized. Farming should be controlled by the state and by the coca farmers' unions.

I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.

Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people.

I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

I don't know Hillary's Clinton stance on urban farming. I don't know Donald Trump's stance or Bernie Sanders's for that matter. But the Obamas have been amazing. You know, Michelle Obama, she planted that garden. She keeps bees there at the White House. Little known fact, though, is that Laura Bush also had an organic garden but she never told anyone about it.

I like to hunt. After baseball, I'll go back and buy some land and do some farming.

Meditation is like farming... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard.

I'm very familiar with the importance of dairy farming in Wisconsin. I've spent the night on a dairy farm here in Wisconsin. If I'm entrusted with the presidency, you'll have someone who is very familiar with what the Wisconsin dairy industry is all about.

My label is just "good farming", which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt.

Natural farming is just farming, nothing more. You don't have to be a spiritually oriented person to practice my methods.

On a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye.

Networking is more about farming than it is about hunting.

Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system.

Organic farming is personal.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here - I love it.

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

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.

The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for cruelty to our own kind.

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

A farmer, as one of his farmer correspondents once wrote to Liberty Hyde Bailey, is "a dispenser of the 'Mysteries of God.'" The husband, unlike the "manager" or the would-be objective scientist, belongs inherently to the complexity and the mystery that is to be husbanded, and so the husbanding mind is both careful and humble.

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part.