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“Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint... and it's just a lot of inert matter, inert paint. Then I look back at the canvas, and it's not inert - it's active, moving and living.”

Looks Sometimes Matter Bigs Moving Fields Paint Active Cows Canvas Dissatisfaction

Author:Philip Guston

“The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.”

Giving Seems Fields Neighbor Milk Cows Crops

Author:Ovid

“I went through the fields, and sat for an hour afraid to pass a cow. The cow looked at me, and I looked at the cow, and whenever I stirred the cow gave over eating.”

Hours Fields Eating Sat Cows

Book:The Grasmere journal

Source: The Grasmere journal

“A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You look at things ecologically. When you see a cow on a feedlot, you don't just see a cow; you see a cow that is eating certain food. You follow that food and that food takes you back to a corn field.”

World Looks Certain Term Natural Fields Eating Historian Cows Corn Natural World

Author:Michael Pollan

“I make films because I have not learned anything else and I know I can do it to a certain degree. And it is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are. We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field.”

Knows I Can Might Would Be Film Certain Can Do Fields Duty Degrees Cows I Can Do It Chronicles

Author:Werner Herzog

“If you want milk, don't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in the hope that a cow will back up to you.”

Ifs Want Middle Fields Milk Cows Up To You Stools

Book:Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life and Business

Source: Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life and Business

“I often pass a farm with cows grazing in the field and I think to myself how terrible it is that human beings grow other animals just to kill them and eat them. Most of us think of vegetarians as nuts and I'm not a vegetarian but I wouldn't be surprised if we came to a time in 50 or 100 years when civilized people everywhere refused to eat animals.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Humans Grows Human Beings Animal Fields Terrible Civilized Vegetarian Farms Nuts Cows Grazing

Author:Andy Rooney