Farms Quotes

I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit.

Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.

The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe.

The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.

To see the farm is to leave it.

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

Rome wasn't built in a day, and we won't replace fossil fuels with clean energy based on the events of a single week, either. But the important thing to remember is that, once they happen, clean energy victories are irreversible. No one will tear down wind farms because they are nostalgic for fracking in our watersheds. And nobody will pull down their solar panels because they miss having mercury in their tuna or asthma inhalers for their kids. Because once we leave fossil fuels behind, we are never going back.

One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.

I want to get a farm where I am going to live for the rest of my life. I like the idea of a secluded place.

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.

E-I-E-I-O is actually a gross misspelling of the word farm.

I got an ant farm; them fellas didn't grow sh*t.

Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound.)

You can't have the family farm without the family.

The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer.

Anyone who thinks that wind factories are environmentally friendly should Google "Cefn Croes Photo Gallery", to see 100 chilling pictures showing how many miles of unspoiled Welsh countryside were disfigured to create the largest industrial site in Britain: all to "save" annually less than a quarter of the CO₂ emissions from a single jumbo jet.

I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it.

There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.

I was raised to farm work.

The disaster in the gulf shows: relying on dangerous, dirty fuels can at times impose incalculable costs. I have never heard of a wind farm collapsing and causing a massive wind-slick. I have never heard of a solar farm collapsing and leaving behind a catastrophic sun-spill.

It is fundamentally crazy to build wind farms out at sea. But it works!

We had 10 children in our family. We all helped each other - we had to to exist, especially when we were out on the farm.

My father was in charge of managing the farm.

All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.

Here's the thing, who cares what you have to look at, I'm a big advocate of not obscuring vistas, but even if you build the biggest wind farm, can it run anything more than a domestic washer and dryer and a computer, for the year? I'm sorry guys, the answer, you're going to be shocked to know: it ain't much more than that.