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Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England. -- Charles Sturt
Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work. -- Cato the Elder
We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable. -- Gary Miller
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place. -- David R. Brower
I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor. -- Herschel Walker
Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice. -- Don Young
The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality. -- Robert Mugabe
It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him. -- Dorothy Day
Farming is a profession of hope -- Brian Brett
Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure. -- Noam Chomsky
Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery. -- George Segal
Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings! -- Masanobu Fukuoka
Farming -- a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it. -- Gustave Flaubert
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
From my standpoint, coca should be neither destroyed nor completely legalized. Farming should be controlled by the state and by the coca farmers' unions. -- Evo Morales
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. -- Amy Pietz
From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner. -- Joel Salatin
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
I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion. -- Henry David Thoreau
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
Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space. -- Tad Williams
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. -- Edward Dahlberg
Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor. -- Henry David Thoreau
My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation. -- Alice Walker
Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time. -- E. W. Howe
I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina. -- Skeet Ulrich
I truly don't judge other people's actions. But I think that factory farming is an abomination. -- Moby
Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done. -- Ruth Asawa
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. -- E. B. White
So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel. -- Daryl Hannah
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one. -- Pope John XXIII
Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can't be like the farming techniques of yore. -- Homaro Cantu
As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth. -- Dita Von Teese
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. -- Anthony Bourdain
What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs. -- Nathan Deal
There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. -- Aldo Leopold
I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it. -- George Sand
Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world. -- Joan Jett
Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects. -- Ellsworth Huntington
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
I grew up off the grid in Vernon, and I saw my parents work hard every day, as teachers but also while farming and building a log home. So from a young age I knew the value of hard work. -- Ryan Holmes
I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there. -- Fuzzy Zoeller
A paradigm shift, where, in addition to physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs can be a promising way forward. This knowledge-based approach will bring immense returns, particularly in rain fed and dry land farming areas. -- Pratibha Patil
All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments. -- Geoff Mulgan
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income. -- Tom Vilsack
Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town. -- Zola Budd
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber. -- Henry David Thoreau
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New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there. -- Daniel Boulud
I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims. -- Peter Singer
I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award. -- Rick Perry
Organic farming is personal. -- Dave Carter
Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals. -- Sue Hubbell
Good farming, clear thinking, right living. -- Henry A. Wallace
Trade is 10 times as old as farming. -- Matt Ridley
Outlaw embryo farming, but allow using surplus embryos. -- Mitt Romney
Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life. -- Gene Baur
Networking is more about farming than it is about hunting. -- Ivan Misner
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching. -- Seamus Heaney
Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people. -- Richard Attias
With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse -- W. H. Auden
I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime. -- Blake Shelton
I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all. -- Brunello Cucinelli
Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system. -- Jerry Brown
Unless people can become natural people, there can be neither natural farming nor natural food. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming. -- Warren Spector
My label is just "good farming", which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt. -- Wendell Berry
If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half. -- Nina Fedoroff
The best farming systems are ones where animals and plants are put into a synergistic relationship. -- Michael Pollan
I like to hunt. After baseball, I'll go back and buy some land and do some farming. -- Jeremy Bonderman
The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again. -- James Cromwell
Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize its the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world? -- Randall Munroe
Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world? -- Randall Munroe
An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating -- Wendell Berry
The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems. -- Marcus Samuelsson
I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs. -- Jessica Lynch
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
We can bring together rich natural resources, innovative research and development, smart investors, and risk-taking farming and manufacturing entrepreneurs. -- Anthony Pratt
Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved. -- Michael Pollan
Natural farming is just farming, nothing more. You don't have to be a spiritually oriented person to practice my methods. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm. -- Wendell Berry
Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. -- Wendell Berry
To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits. -- Wendell Berry
There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule]. -- Thein Sein
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature. -- Peter Singer
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.
Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
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
While vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming. -- Joel Salatin
I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals. -- Kevin Nealon
Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of things. -- Saul Bellow
I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two. -- Andy Goldsworthy
Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo. -- Terry Pratchett
Trees shaped like deer should not be ridden like benches if they get stuck up in other trees. No hunting farming allowed. Fishing only. -- Jarod Kintz
We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part. -- Jeff Sessions
My job as a comedian is to heighten awareness about locally grown produce, fight factory farming, and promote euthanasia, but in a funny way. -- Dov Davidoff
I don't know of a better argument in favor of farming with horses than trying to start an old tractor in the winter time. -- Gene Logsdon
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. -- Anthony Head
Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster. -- Stewart Brand
Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their gaze. -- Matthew Scully
With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there is no future. -- Jaggi Vasudev
President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois. -- Tom Vilsack
There are 6.6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed four billion of them. Which two billion would volunteer to die? -- Norman Borlaug
Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit? -- Ellen Page
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. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Far from being a "luxury for the rich," organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor, but for everyone. -- Raj Patel
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Networking is not about hunting. It is about farming. It's about cultivating relationships. Don't engage in 'premature solicitation'. You'll be a better networker if you remember that. -- Ivan Misner
The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it. -- Bill Gates
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. -- Jonathan Kozol
The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging. -- Ann Voskamp
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed. -- Fay Godwin
My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature -- Josephine Hart
Although natural farming - since it can teach people to cultivate a deep understanding of nature - may lead to spiritual insight, it's not strictly a spiritual practice. -- Masanobu Fukuoka

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