The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

- David R. Brower

From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner.

- Joel Salatin

Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.

- Joan Jett

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

- Jacques Yves Cousteau

Farming's always been my business.

- Howlin' Wolf

Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can't be like the farming techniques of yore.

- Homaro Cantu

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

- Edward Dahlberg

Factory farming's evil; you know that.

- Eric Ripert

So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.

- Daryl Hannah

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

- Alice Walker

Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.

- Charles Sturt

It's important to concede that modern pesticides have helped to make farming more productive and to increase yields.

- Chuck Norris

I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.

- Brunello Cucinelli

I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.

- Blake Shelton

The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.

- Bill Gates

If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.

- Adam Dell

Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here - I love it.

- Anthony Head

Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming.

- Arthur Capper

I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.

- Anthony Bourdain