{"quotes":[{"text":"These memories are part of my heritage, the fabric of my personality, and as real to me as the land itself.","author":"Karen Jones Gowen","tags":["farming","land","memoir"],"id":574,"author_id":"Karen+Jones+Gowen"},{"text":"It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutation, of which the assembly line, the collective farm, the mechanized army, and the mass production of food are evidences or even symptoms, might well correspond to the thickening armor of the great reptiles—a tendency that can end only in extinction. If this should happen to be true, nothing stemming from thought can interfere with it or bend it. Conscious thought seems to have little effect on the action or direction of our species.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["extinction","farming","human-development","production","thought","war"],"id":2530,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"Of course, chaos can lead to failure and extinction. But so can order. Far more nations, people, and ideas die of atrophy than die from revolution. Both order and chaos are necessary ingredients for long run success - for sustainability.","author":"John Ikerd","tags":["chaos","farming","order","permaculture","revolution","sustainability"],"id":3305,"author_id":"John+Ikerd"},{"text":"Awake! Arise! The hour is late! Angels are knocking at thy door!They are in haste and cannot wait, And once departed come no more.Awake! Arise! The athlete's arm Loses its strength by too much rest;The fallow land, the untilled farm Produces only weeds at best.","author":"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow","tags":["agriculture","athlete","athletes","carpe-diem","fallow","farm","farming","haste","inspirational","motivational","opportunity","opportunity-knocks","seize-the-day","weeds"],"id":5761,"author_id":"Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow"},{"text":"Farming is a profession of hope.","author":"Brian Brett","tags":["farming","hope"],"id":13971,"author_id":"Brian+Brett"},{"text":"Grow up, Bailey.'That is precisely what I'm doing,' Bailey says. 'I don't care if you don't understand that. Staying here won't make me happy. It will make you happy because you're insipid and boring, and an insipid, boring life is enough for you. It's not enough for me. It will never be enough for me. So I'm leaving. Do me a favor and marry someone who will take decent care of the sheep.","author":"Erin Morgenstern","tags":["farming","life","marriage","marriage-advice","maturity","sibling-relationships"],"id":18337,"author_id":"Erin+Morgenstern"},{"text":"At every point in our food economy, present conditions remaining, we must expect to come to a time when demand (for quantity or quality) going up will meet the culture coming down. The fact is that we have nearly destroyed American farming, and in the process have nearly destroyed our country.From the essay'Nature As Measure.","author":"Wendell Berry","tags":["farming","food"],"id":26533,"author_id":"Wendell+Berry"},{"text":"A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["adage","advertisement","agricultural-revolution","agriculturalist","agriculture","agro","alliterations","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","blog","blogging","book-writing","catch-lines","catchphrases","characters","creative-writing","crops","essay","farm","farm-animals","farm-land","farmer","farmers","farming","green","hard-work","in-the-sun","indian-farmer","inspirational","irrigation","kisan","knowledge","magic","magician","money","motivational","movie","movie-dialogue","mud","novel-writing","philosophy","proverbs","public-speaking","punchline","quotes","rain","rhetoric","sayings","script","script-writing","scriptwriting","shetkari","slogans","social-networking","sow","speech","speechwriting","story","tag-lines","trees","wisdom","wit","witty","writing"],"id":29066,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one quarter-acre, that is 1 1/4 acres to a family of five, that would be more than enough land to support the family for the whole year. If natural farming were practiced, a farmer would also have plenty of time for leisure and social activities within the village community. I think this is the most direct path toward making this country a happy, pleasant land.","author":"Masanobu Fukuoka","tags":["community","equality","equity","fairness","farming","happiness","leisure","revolution","time"],"id":29945,"author_id":"Masanobu+Fukuoka"},{"text":"The ripen fruit is for a sacred season.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["farming","fruit","garden","harvest","inspiring","nature","season"],"id":33524,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":94,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}