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#1

“This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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#2

“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.”
― Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

tags: agriculture, farming, soil

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#3

“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”
― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

tags: agriculture, farming, zen

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#4

“Eating is an agricultural act.”
― Wendell Berry, What Are People For?

tags: agriculture, food, politics

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#5

“When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”
― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

tags: agriculture, farming, zen

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#6

“The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The products of nature and agriculture have been made, to all appearances, the products of industry. Both eater and eaten are thus in exile from biological reality.”
― Wendell Berry

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#7

“Globalized industrialized food is not cheap: it is too costly for the Earth, for the farmers, for our health. The Earth can no longer carry the burden of groundwater mining, pesticide pollution, disappearance of species and destabilization of the climate. Farmers can no longer carry the burden of debt, which is inevitable in industrial farming with its high costs of production. It is incapable of producing safe, culturally appropriate, tasty, quality food. And it is incapable of producing enough food for all because it is wasteful of land, water and energy. Industrial agriculture uses ten times more energy than it produces. It is thus ten times less efficient.”
― Vandana Shiva

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#8

“Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though much has been done to obscure this simple fact, how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world - and what is to become of it. To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life can afford quite as much satisfaction. By comparison, the pleasures of eating industrially, which is to say eating in ignorance, are fleeting. Many people today seem erfectly content eating at the end of an industrial food chain, without a thought in the world; this book is probably not for them.”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

tags: eating, food, ignorance, industry, life, politics

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#9

“Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?”
― Jane Goodall, Harvest for Hope

tags: agriculture, food, hunger

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#10

“Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulties normal to farming? And always the answer is: "Love. They must do it for love." Farmers farm for the love of farming. They love to watch and nurture the growth of plants. They love to live in the presence of animals. They love to work outdoors. They love the weather, maybe even when it is making them miserable. They love to live where they work and to work where they live. If the scale of their farming is small enough, they like to work in the company of their children and with the help of their children. They love the measure of independence that farm life can still provide. I have an idea that a lot of farmers have gone to a lot of trouble merely to be self-employed to live at least a part of their lives without a boss.”
― Wendell Berry, Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food

tags: farming, love, work

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#11

“Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery.”
― Wendell Berry, Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food

tags: conservation, farming

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#12

“Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.”
― Alice Waters

tags: children, community, education, farming, food

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#13

“Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.”
― Chris Hedges

tags: animal-rights, diet, dieting, ecology, farming, nutrition, pollution, vegan, veganism

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#14

“Farming is a profession of hope”
― Brian Brett

tags: farming, hope

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#15

“Organic farming appealed to me because it involved searching for and discovering nature's pathways, as opposed to the formulaic approach of chemical farming. The appeal of organic farming is boundless; this mountain has no top, this river has no end.”
― Eliot Coleman, The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener

tags: farming, nature, organic

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#16

“When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.”
― Herophilus

tags: art, intelligence, strength, wisdom

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#17

“Save the Planet...Buy Organic”
― Nancy Philips

tags: cooking, green, health, healthy, organic, organic-food

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#18

“... food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: art, art-form, cooking, dinner, eating, feasting, feasts, food, food-art, food-as-art, food-for-thought, food-love, fuel, fuel-of-life, good-food, gourmet, gourmets, organic, perfection, pleasure, pleasures-of-life, soul-food

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#19

“Be seasonal, ethical and gentle.”
― Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling: Fennel's Journal No. 6

tags: caring, custodian, forage, nature, organic, wholesome, wildlife

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#20

“People tend to assume that organic farming and sustainability go hand in hand. But that's not necessarily the case - and it hasn't been for most of history. While going organic has some big advantages, even today most organic farmers still rely on the plow - the chief culprit in the this story. Why? Because it provides cheap, reliable weed suppression." David Montgomery - Growing a Revolution”
― David R. Montgomery, Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life

tags: organic, plow, sustainable-living

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#21

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: food, happiness

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#22

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
― Hippocrates

tags: food, health, medicine

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#23

“Our most important job as vegetable gardeners is to feed and sustain soil life, often called the soil food web, beginning with the microbes. If we do this, our plants will thrive, we’ll grow nutritious, healthy food, and our soil conditions will get better each year. This is what is meant by the adage ”Feed the soil not the plants.”
― Jane Shellenberger, Organic Gardener's Companion: Growing Vegetables in the West

tags: gardening, plants, soil

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#24

“Organic foods are richer in nutrients. This means they improve satiety and naturally help regulate body weight…Plants produce antioxidants to protect themselves from pests like insects and to withstand harsh weather. When they’re treated with chemicals such as pesticides, they don’t need to produce as much of their own natural defenses, so the levels are lower.” (p.203)”
― Cynthia Sass, Cinch! Conquer Cravings, Drop Pounds, and Lose Inches

tags: antioxidants, body-weight, chemicals, insects, natural-defenses, nutrients, organic-foods, pesticides, plants, satiety, weather

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#25

“There's something satisfying about getting your hands in the soil.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

tags: gardeners, gardening, gardening-as-therapy, gardens, getting-your-hands-dirty, planting, planting-flowers, plants, satisfaction, soil

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#26

“Everything is mended by the soil.”
― Andrew Crofts, Secrets of the Italian Gardener

tags: gardeners, gardens, power, revolution, tyranny, wealth

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#27

“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: abraham-lincoln, gardening, self-sufficiency

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#28

“My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece”
― Claude Monet

tags: art, france, gardening

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#29

“May I a small house and large garden have;
And a few friends,
And many books, both true.”
― Abraham Cowley

tags: friendship, gardening, reading, sharonlovejoy-s-trowel-error

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#30

“If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. 'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart.”
― Russell Page, The Education of a Gardener

tags: gardening, green-thumb, growth, understanding, verdant

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