194 Quotes About Farming

When I was still working at the museum, every project had a checklist, a clear set of milestones. I worked until I satisfied these requirements, and then I put the project away. On the farm, though, we were immersed in the summer, a wide, warm ocean with no shore in sight and no landmarks to swim toward. Now we rested in that same ocean, floating as it moved around us.

She went about that afternoon looking under sheep like a pervert, happy with all the dark, purple-pink tissue at their hindquarters. New lambs in the spring.

I know the pleasure of pulling up root vegetables. They are solvable mysteries.

This is to teach those who have never gone hunting how to respect farming traditions.

The Mexican worker is the only people that has come and wanted to do this work in the 25 years I've been farming here.

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

As you have sown so shall you reap.

The master's eye is the best fertilizer.

When we certify organic, we are certifying not just a product, but the farming and handling practices that yield that product,