Farmer Quotes
Farmers Quotes
Farmers Quotes
“Their hands are tied not by ropes but by the greed of the intermediaries that the system has generated, who eat up the farmer’s income while it is on its way into his hands.”
― Faraaz Kazi
― Faraaz Kazi
“Future Farmers of America. Group who take ag classes and are going to inherit the farm. Hot shit around here, they have a couple guys in every clique, and they stick together, 'cause they know they'll be seeing each other every week for the next sixty years.”
― John Barnes
― John Barnes
tags: farmers, small-town
“I see a time when the farmer will not need to live in a lonely cabin on a lonely farm. I see the farmers coming together in groups. I see them with time to read, and time to visit with their fellows. I see them enjoying lectures in beautiful halls, erected in every village. I see them gather like the Saxons of old upon the green at evening to sing and dance. I see cities rising near them with schools, and churches, and concert halls, and theaters. I see a day when the farmer will no longer be a drudge and his wife a bond slave, but happy men and women who will go singing to their pleasant tasks upon their fruitful farms. When the boys and girls will not go west nor to the city; when life will be worth living. In that day the moon will be brighter and the stars more glad, and pleasure and poetry and love of life come back to the man who tills the soil.”
― Hamlin Garland, A Spoil of Office: A Story of the Modern West
― Hamlin Garland, A Spoil of Office: A Story of the Modern West
“This land pulses with life. It breathes in me; it breathes around me; it breathes in spite of me. When I walk on this land, I am walking on the heartbeat of the past and the future. And that’s only one of the reasons I am a farmer.”
― Brenda Sutton Rose
― Brenda Sutton Rose
“I cleaned the shit off my pink high-tops and drove home, stopping for an espresso at the coffeehouse across from the college. Men and women were hunched over copies of Jean Paul Sartre and writing in their journals. Most wore the thin-rimmed tortoiseshell glasses favored by intellectuals. Their clothes were faded to a precisely fashionable degree; you can buy them that way from catalogs now, new clothes processed to look old. The intellectuals looked at me in my overalls the way such people inevitably look at farmers.
I dumped a lot of sugar in my espresso and sipped it delicately at a corner table near the door. I looked at them the way farmers look at intellectuals.”
― Mary Rose O'Reilley
I dumped a lot of sugar in my espresso and sipped it delicately at a corner table near the door. I looked at them the way farmers look at intellectuals.”
― Mary Rose O'Reilley
“Woods are grim places. Farmers shoot squirrels, crows, magpies, and hang them up on trees to warn Mother Nature to get it together or else. Much notice she takes, being in league with God. They're a right pair, more carnage than the rest of us put together.”
― Jonathan Gash, The Rich and the Profane
― Jonathan Gash, The Rich and the Profane
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“Some of the most memorable, and least regrettable, nights of my own youth were spent in coon hunting with farmers. There is no denying that these activities contributed to the economy of farm households, but a further fact is that they were pleasures; they were wilderness pleasures, not greatly different from the pleasures pursued by conservationists and wilderness lovers. As I was always aware, my friends the coon hunters were not motivated just by the wish to tree coons and listen to hounds and listen to each other, all of which were sufficiently attractive; they were coon hunters also because they wanted to be afoot in the woods at night. Most of the farmers I have known, and certainly the most interesting ones, have had the capacity to ramble about outdoors for the mere happiness of it, alert to the doings of the creatures, amused by the sight of a fox catching grasshoppers, or by the puzzle of wild tracks in the snow.”
― Wendell Berry, Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
― Wendell Berry, Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
“When I went to first grade and the other children said that their fathers were farmers, I simply didn't believe them. I agreed in order to be polite, but in my heart I knew that those men were impostors, as farmers and as fathers, too. In my youthful estimation, Laurence Cook defined both categories. To really believe that others even existed in either category was to break the First Commandment.”
― Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
― Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
“Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds.”
― Thomas Jefferson
― Thomas Jefferson
“No countryman ever speaks to an animal without blaspheming it, although if he be engaged in some solitary work and inspired to music, he invariably sings a hymn in a voice that seems to have some vague association with wood pulp. ”
― A.E. Coppard, Dusky Ruth: And Other Stories
― A.E. Coppard, Dusky Ruth: And Other Stories
“As he farmed, hard labor left his hands callused, the sun bleached his hair, his face leathered, and his heart throbbed with music.”
― Brenda Sutton Rose, Dogwood Blues
― Brenda Sutton Rose, Dogwood Blues
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“Leaders are farmers; they cultivate human beings by adding values to them till they are fully grown as successful people for harvesting.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
“Offerings gleam beneath consecrated trees,
boulders, and caves where Kami nature spirits
minister to congregations of saki cans, lotus root,
and the glow of tangerines; still-lives silent as prayer.”
― Jalina Mhyana, The Wishing Bones
boulders, and caves where Kami nature spirits
minister to congregations of saki cans, lotus root,
and the glow of tangerines; still-lives silent as prayer.”
― Jalina Mhyana, The Wishing Bones
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“I seek him in the landscape of home, in the breeze brushing over rows of crops. I seek him in the seasons of planting and harvesting. A rugged man of the earth, he breathed life into this farm.”
― Brenda Sutton Rose
― Brenda Sutton Rose
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“While farmers contribute to our survival, let us also do our part by showing them respect in form of not wasting food.”
― Mohith Agadi
― Mohith Agadi
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“If the Lowland farmer spoke with an uncouth accent, dressed in rags, lived in a miserable hovel, and fed on the same grain he fed his animals, it was not because he was a savage but because the relentless marauding of the English left him with very little choice. As for why he didn't simply cut his throat, the answer is that he was a Presbyterian and did not expect much in the way of earthly happiness.”
― William Maxwell, Ancestors: A Family History
― William Maxwell, Ancestors: A Family History
“Who can live without eating? A farmer is a great hero because he fights for our existence! If anyone deserves a medal of existence in a country, that person should be a farmer!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
― Mehmet Murat ildan
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“Jeg taler aldrig med Bønder, uden jeg jo lærer noget af dem: Thi de raisonnere ikke uden om solide og magtpaaliggende Ting, hvorom de vide fuldkommen Beskeed.”
― Ludvig Holberg, Epistler
― Ludvig Holberg, Epistler
“Sustainable Foods = Sustainable Health = Sustainable Life = Victory”
― Elizabeth Salamanca-Brosig
― Elizabeth Salamanca-Brosig
“I’m not made for city streets. My brogans drop soil from the field behind me, each grain of dirt like a seed revealing who I am. My heart belongs in the country. I’m a farmer, and I was shaped in the fields.”
― Brenda Sutton Rose
― Brenda Sutton Rose
“He who doesn’t regard agriculture will truly value it when food becomes scarce!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“Farmers had freed themselves in part from the blind natural forces of storm and insects only to become increasingly the victims of the equally blind forces of market fluctuations. (p. 14)”
― Grant McConnell, Decline of Agrarian Democracy
― Grant McConnell, Decline of Agrarian Democracy
“Agriculture, however, is not and never has been a single monolithic interest in our society. We have always known differences among farmers of different regions, different crops, and different incomes. The difference in the forms of political organization have been determined principally by the manner in which economic differences have been resolved. (pp. 15–16)”
― Grant McConnell, Decline of Agrarian Democracy
― Grant McConnell, Decline of Agrarian Democracy
“As I string, a swift rhythm is played out with my hands, a cadence known only to those who have strung tobacco. To many of the poor workers, the meter and rhythm of stringing tobacco is the only poetry they’ve ever known.”
― Brenda Sutton Rose
― Brenda Sutton Rose
“I see a time when the farmer will not need to live in a cabin on a lonely farm. I see the farmers coming together in groups. I see them with the time to read, and time to visit with their fellows. I see them enjoying lectures in beautiful halls, erected in every village. I see them gather like Saxons of old upon the green at evening to sing and dance. I see cities rising near them with schools, and churches, and concert halls and theaters. I see a day when the farmer will no longer be a drudge and his wife a bond slave, but happy men and women who will go singing to their pleasant tasks upon their fruitful farms. When the boys and girls will not go west nor to the city; when life will be worth living. In that day the moon will be brighter and the stars more glad, and pleasure and poetry and love of life come back to the man who tills the soil.”
― Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
― Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
“But farmers are patient men tried by brutal seasons, and if they weren't plagued by dreams of generation, few would keep plowing, spring after spring.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory
― Richard Powers, The Overstory
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