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If you leave your soil untilled, you will not benefit from God’s rain. Even if God pours down a heavy rainfall, it will only grow weeds on your land.Israelmore Ayivor
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To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.Amit Kalantri
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If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.Amit Kalantri
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A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.Amit Kalantri
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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.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I am no theologian, and do not have the answers to these questions, and one of the reasons I enjoy the animals on the farm so much is that they don't think about their pain, or question it, they accept it and endure it, true stoics. I have never heard a donkey or cow whine (although I guess dogs do). I told my friend this: pain, like joy, is a gift. It challenges us, tests, defines us, causes us to grow, empathize, and also, to appreciate its absence. If nothing else, it sharpens the experience of joy. The minute something happens to me that causes pain, I start wondering how I can respond to it, what I can learn from it, what it has taught me or shown me about myself. This doesn't make it hurt any less, but it puts it, for me, on a more manageable level. I don't know if there is a God, or if he causes me or anybody else to hurt, or if he could stop pain. I try to accept it and live beyond it. I think the animals have taught me that. The Problem of Pain is that it exists, and is ubiquitous. The Challenge of Pain is how we respond to it.Jon Katz
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Raised on a cotton farm in rural Georgia, as many white/negro families did to make a meager living, my daddy had a saying.' All a poor man has is his good name and good credit. God help him if he looses either of those.' I still believe that.Susan Ethridge
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A visit to the family farm in spring means witnessing growth and challenge and beauty and stillness all rolled into one.Heidi Barr
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Utility electricity is a known hazardous biological toxin and the toxicity of it is increasing as it progresses into harmonic electronic power generation (Wind & Solar) and wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation smart/ A M R/ A M I meters.Steven Magee
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No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate, ” he said frankly. “And books, they offer hope – that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe one is saved.Anne Rice
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Alford, Massachusetts: Mandy stood there with her old Nikon film camera, snapping photo after photo of the rural landscape. It was difficult to describe the wonderful feeling of there not being a single cell phone in sight; the only modern technology around was the faint blue glow of a cathode ray tube television in the window of a nearby house, and a few cars and trucks parked in crumbling gravel driveways. She was allowed to see this place, one that would likely be ruined by the 21st century as time went on… places like these were extremely hard to find these days. A world of wood-burning cookstoves and the waxy smell of Paraffin, laundry hung out to dry, rusty steel bridges over streams that reflected the bright blue skies, apple pies left out on windowsills… a world of hard work with very little to show for it aside from the sunlight beaming down on a proud community. And Mandy wanted to trap it all in her Kodak film rolls and rescue it from the future.Rebecca McNutt
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Your purpose is God’s success. You can’t pay for what God want to be done. It’s God’s business; it’s his farmland, so when he said he’ll provide the rain, don’t doubt it!Israelmore Ayivor
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Not every environment accepts the dream shaping progress you want to put across. Take a second look at what you dream about, be sure it can progress very well where you are; Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not fertile grounds for a farmer’s dream seeds. Go and relocate!Israelmore Ayivor
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Our great adventure ran out of petrol and stopped on this farm.Steven Herrick
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Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again.Michael Pollan
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Mark came home late one frozen Sunday carrying a bag of small, silver fish. They were smelts, locally known as icefish. He’d brought them at the store in the next town south, across from which a little village had sprung up on the ice of the lake, a collection of shacks with holes drilled in and around them. I’d seen the men going from the shore to the shacks on snowmobiles, six-packs of beer strapped on behind them like a half dozen miniature passengers. “Sit and rest, ” Mark said. “I’m cooking.” He sautéed minced onion in our homemade butter, added a little handful of crushed, dried sage, and when the onion was translucent, he sprinkled n flour to make a roux, which he loosened with beer, in honor of the fishermen. He added cubed carrot, celery root, potato, and some stock, and then the fish, cut into pieces, and when they were all cooked through he poured in a whole morning milking’s worth of Delia’s yellow cream. Icefish chowder, rich and warm, eaten while sitting in Mark’s lap, my feet so close to the woodstove that steam came off my damp socks.Kristin Kimball
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The farm is a base of operations—a stronghold. You can withdraw into yourself there. Solitude for reflection is an essential ingredient in self-development. I think a person has to be withdrawn into himself to gather inspiration so that he is somebody when he comes out again among folks—when he “comes to market’ with himself. He learns that he’s got to be almost wastefully alone.Robert Frost
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You would be much amused with the animals round the ranch.Theodore Roosevelt
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In his imagination, he grabbed his dad by the throat and squeezed until an old mans face turned purple. No pleading, no begging, simply... nothing.Unknown
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This is what a place like this does to you. It makes you put words in the beaks of chickens.Danielle Paige
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My favourite road I've ever been on ain't paved.Viktor Tatarczuk
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The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.James Cromwell
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A 'farm' today means 100, 000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.P. J. ORourke
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.Florence Nightingale
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The benefits of a healthier diet are far-reaching because they also equate to fewer animals being bred into inhumane factory farm conditions and fewer greenhouse gas emissions.Michael Greger