“Rio: You quit? Mike: I all the way quit. I’m goin’ farmin’ in Nebraska.”— Elizabeth Meriwether, Rio, Lake Bell, imdb.com
“You make a mistake and something dies. And then—if you get through it—in a week or ten days’ time, the grass comes, the sun shines, and there is a feeling of absolute sheer exhaustion that turns to elation.”— James Rebanks, newyorker.com
“Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.”— Jacques Cousteau, en.wikiquote.org
“We must plant the sea and herd its animals … using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about — farming replacing hunting.”— Jacques Cousteau, en.wikiquote.org
“Farmers have been starving... What Filipinos do not realize is how significant farmers are to the country’s food security. People do not realize that in a town in Central Luzon, where majority of the nation's rice supply comes from, a 72-year-old farmer gets up before sunrise every single day to pro…”— Danielle Nakpil, rappler.com
“Their efficient operation, based on previous experience at similar but smaller facilities, can accomplish this astonishing output 'while using 95% less water than field farmed-food and with yields 75 times higher per square foot annually.'”— Urbanist, weburbanist.com
“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 lif…”— Wendell Berry, amazon.com