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Farming Quotes - Page 2

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

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

Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.

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

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

"A conversation with environmental campaigner Wendell Berry". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse

W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.150, DEBOLS!LLO

Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

Sue Hubbell (2017). “A Book of Bees”, p.43, Open Road Media

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

"Agriculture, and Africa’s Future" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2013.

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

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