#farmers

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#causes #colony #condition #enterprise #farmers

Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen. ↗

— Dick Armey

#companies #devastate #everyone #farm #farmers

By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#cash #collecting #crop #ethanol #farmers

Alabama farmers want a chance to complete fairly in Japan, but they can't if the Japanese won't let us in. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#chance #complete #fairly #farmers #japan

Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make. ↗

— Michael Symon

#better things #buy #farmers #food #go

No countryman ever speaks to an animal without blaspheming it, although if he be engaged in some solitary work and inspired to music, he invariably sings a hymn in a voice that seems to have some vague association with wood pulp. ↗

— A.E. Coppard

#inspirational

Woods are grim places. Farmers shoot squirrels, crows, magpies, and hang them up on trees to warn Mother Nature to get it together or else. Much notice she takes, being in league with God. They're a right pair, more carnage than the rest of us put together. ↗

— Jonathan Gash

#farmers #god #lovejoy #mother-nature #nature

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. ↗

— Giovanni Boccaccio

#farmers #generally #hens #men #rooster

Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners. ↗

— Mark Udall

#clean #clean water #clear #crops #employer

I see a time when the farmer will not need to live in a lonely cabin on a lonely farm. I see the farmers coming together in groups. I see them with time to read, and time to visit with their fellows. I see them enjoying lectures in beautiful halls, erected in every village. I see them gather like the Saxons of old upon the green at evening to sing and dance. I see cities rising near them with schools, and churches, and concert halls, and theaters. I see a day when the farmer will no longer be a drudge and his wife a bond slave, but happy men and women who will go singing to their pleasant tasks upon their fruitful farms. When the boys and girls will not go west nor to the city; when life will be worth living. In that day the moon will be brighter and the stars more glad, and pleasure and poetry and love of life come back to the man who tills the soil. ↗

— Hamlin Garland

#farming #beauty