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“Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.”

Art Self Play Together Grows Land Expression Instruments Bread Factories Integration Farming Harmonious Self Expression

Book:The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold

Source: The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold

“To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.”

Kind Use Land Limits Capitalism Acknowledge Farming Land Use

Author:Wendell Berry

“much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).”

Might Form Used Grows Growing Land Resources Coffee Tea Etc Farming Growing Food

Book:Diet for a Small Planet

Source: Diet for a Small Planet

“in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency.”

Men World Wells Land Resources Portions Minors Agriculture Efficiency Farming Dubious

Book:Diet for a Small Planet

Source: Diet for a Small Planet

“Nobody is going to invest a fortune into good orchard land, all the farming equipment necessary, the fertilizer, the seedlings, the nonstop Herculean work effort needed to grow apples, then bring them to the fruit stand for people to take home for free.”

People Home Grows Effort Land Needed Fortune Fruit Apples Equipment Farming Orchard Fertilizer Work Effort Seedlings

Author:Ted Nugent

“I was born and raised in Pawnee City, Nebraska. I lived right next to the sale barn and I raised pigs. My dad was a guidance counselor at Wymore High School. He was also a preacher and did farming as well. We leased out our crop land but had cattle and horses.”

Wells School Next Born Cities Land Dad High School Horse Raised My Dad Guidance Preacher Pigs Farming Crops Cattle Counselor Barns Born And Raised Nebraska Guidance Counselor

Author:Larry the Cable Guy

“The Norfolk people are quick and smart in their motions and their speaking. Very neat and trim in all their farming concerns and very skilful. Their land is good, their roads are level, and the bottom of their soil is dry, to be sure; and these are great advantages; but they are diligent and make the most of everything.”

People Levels Land Smart Advantage Concern Bottom Dry Soil Farming Neat Diligent Norfolk

Book:Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey ... [etc.] in the Years 1821, 1822, 1823, 1825, 1826, 1829, 1830 and 1832, with Economical and Political Observations Relative to Matters Applicable To, and Illustrated By, the State of Those Counties Respectively

Source: Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey ... [etc.] in the Years 1821, 1822, 1823, 1825, 1826, 1829, 1830 and 1832, with Economical and Political Observations Relative to Matters Applicable To, and Illustrated By, the State of Those Counties Respectively

“I like to hunt. After baseball, I'll go back and buy some land and do some farming.”

Land Baseball Hunts Farming

Author:Jeremy Bonderman

“And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does not reward hard work: it penalizes it. Inherited or invested wealth frequently multiplies itself while paying no taxes at all. But wages on the assembly line or in farming the land, these hard-earned dollars are taxed to the very last penny.”

Doe Hard Today Lasts Lines Wealth Land Honest Hard Work Taxes Fairs Dollars Rewards Working It Wages Farming Pennies Assembly Assembly Line Tax System Honest Work

Author:George McGovern

“I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding pieces of abandoned land and caring for them by hand.”

War Hands Natural Pieces Land Caring Just One Plot Abandoned Farming

Author:Masanobu Fukuoka

“[My father] did get enough money to buy mules. We didn't have tractors, but he bought mules, wagons, cultivators and some farming equipment. As soon as he bought that and decided to rent some land, because it was always better if you rent the land, but as soon as he got the mules and wagons and everything, somebody went to our trough - a white man who didn't live very far from us - and he fed the mules Paris Green, put it in their food and it killed the mules and our cows.”

Ifs Men Enough Father White Land Decided Green Paris Feds Cows Equipment White Man Farming Wagons Mules Tractors Trough

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer