Farming Quotes - Page 2
Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.121, Graphic Arts Books
Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.
'The Parish Register' (1807 pt. 1, l. 273
Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia during ... 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831: with observations on New South Wales”, p.70
P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.248, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com
W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.150, DEBOLS!LLO
Sue Hubbell (2017). “A Book of Bees”, p.43, Open Road Media
Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure.
David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky (2001). “Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky”, p.188, Pluto Press
You have stirred the soil with your plow, my friend. It will never be the same again.
Martha Ostenso (1943). “O River, Remember”
How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.
Jane Smiley (2011). “A Thousand Acres: A Novel”, p.45, Anchor
Farming -- a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it.
Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.44, Penguin