Farming Quotes

Farming Quote of the day

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

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

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

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.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

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?

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.

One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.

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.

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.

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.

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.

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 know of a better argument in favor of farming with horses than trying to start an old tractor in the winter time.

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.

Farming is a profession of hope

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.

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

Farming is not just for growing crops, it is for the cultivation...o f human beings!

Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo.

The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.

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.

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.

Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?

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

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?

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.

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

Fish farming, even with conventional techniques, changes fish within a few generations from an animal like a wild buffalo or a wildebeest to the equivalent of a domestic cow.

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

Organic farming is personal.

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

Unless people can become natural people, there can be neither natural farming nor natural food.

While vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming.

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.

As you have sown so shall you reap.

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

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

I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding pieces of abandoned land and caring for them by hand.

There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule].

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

Factory farming is the attitude that commodifies sentient life.

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

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

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

Networking is more about farming than it is about hunting.

So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.

Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.

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.