Quotes of: Farmer Keyword

That many if not most people...who want fresh leafy greens in January buy them at the supermarket after they've been bleached and plastic-bag shipped from California or beyond is not a tribute to modern technology; it's an unprecedented abdication of...

Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

How many of us lobby for green energy or protected lands, but don't engage with the local bounty to lay by for tomorrow's unseasonal reality? That we tend to not even think about this as a foundation for solutions in our food systems shows how quickl...

Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

Vin: Rojas is makin' room for you in his home. Old Man: Rojas? His conversation would bore me to death! Vin: Yeah, well, [sits on the wooden chair] Vin: maybe somebody else, huh? Old Man: hey are all farmers. Farmers talk of nothing but fertiliser an...

The Magnificent Seven

What is interesting to me about Vikings is that they were failed farmers.

Roger Avary

I come from generations of farmers.

Chuck Palahniuk

Farmers' markets are one of my favourite sources for Christmas goodies.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it.

Masters of the Planet

Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.

Joel Salatin

During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.

Edward Burnett Tylor

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.

Masanobu Fukuoka

Kitty Farmer: "No duh" is a product of fear.

Donnie Darko

Pop Fisher: I shoulda been a farmer.

The Natural

Farmer: [in Japanese] Everybody's after easy money.

Yojimbo

Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please tell me I'm not the only one who believes this. Please. As a culture, we think we're well educated, but I'm not sure that w...

Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

The perfect weather that had allowed us to get the oats and corn in ahead of time probably also contributed to the dearth of migrating warblers. With no storms to force the birds down, they overflew this area on their northward journey. At least I ho...

Great Possessions : An Amish Farmer's Journal

WL’s [White Liberals] think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don’t believe that. There’s a lot to be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity. It’s what separates us from roaches

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World

In the past few years, genetics have confirmed that the hunter-gatherers were not overwhelmed by the new wave of sedentary farmers, and that the first agricultural revolution spread well in advance of its first users, by contact and trade in ideas. N...

Markham Shaw Pyle

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world.

Clifford Geertz

Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the theory of gravity.

Donald Johanson

A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.

Norman Parkinson

The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.

Nelson Rockefeller