Kazmierczak Farms Quotes

I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms. ~ Daryl Hannah

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules. ~ Tina Turner

And the owners not only did not work the farms any more, many of them had never seen the farms they owned. ~ John Steinbeck

All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty. ~ Jo Walton

Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms. ~ Anne Stevenson

I am a vegan because I don't want to support the cruel industry that goes on on farms everyday. ~ Zoe Rosenberg

It is fundamentally crazy to build wind farms out at sea. But it works! ~ Tulsi Tanti

You can't have the family farm without the family. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong. ~ Ann Richards

A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers. ~ Edward Abbey

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it. ~ Donella Meadows

The president says, 'There is lots of people worse off than the Farmers.' I don't know who it could be unless it is the fellow who holds the Mortgages on the Farms. ~ Will Rogers

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm. ~ Sam Donaldson

I had old bunk beds that my dad got from Seabrook Farms. They were first used by German prisoners during World War II, who were sent to work the farms during the war. The metal beds with their thin mattresses could easily be used as a jungle gym and I loved them. ~ David Mixner

We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos. ~ Bob Barker

Cows that are fed organic food are still kept as slaves on farms, regardless of whether it is a large corporate factory farm or a small family farm. Besides, every dairy cow, no matter what she has been fed, has her babies stolen from her shortly after birth and she will inevitably end up in the slaughterhouse. ~ Sharon Gannon

I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms. ~ Ellen DeGeneres

A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

So when it comes to circadian rhythms, it's a clock that's basically programmed in our body. So if you think back to times when people lived on farms and we didn't have electricity. ~ Shelby Harris

Being born not long after the war meant that money was tight. I grew up in a rural corner of Lincolnshire and my father worked on local farms. Being one of nine kids meant we didn't have much. ~ Geoff Capes

In Cleveland, I'm so fortunate that we're surrounded by farms with an endless variety of beautiful vegetables. For me, I always eat very tightly with the season, even if the season is only six weeks. ~ Michael Symon

You came to tell us that the great cities are in favour of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile plains. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy out farms and the grass will grow in the city ... You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. ~ William Jennings Bryan

All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms. ~ Zac Goldsmith

For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and houses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms. ~ Ingrid Newkirk

I wrote MARCH FARM because I fell in love with the farms of Bethlehem when I moved here in 2000. I became passionate about preserving farms for many reasons: to secure the open spaces vital for wildlife habitat, to support my community by maintaining its rural beauty, and to honor a way of life that has deep roots in our cultural psyche. ~ Nancy McMillan

Today's fishing industry supplies land farms with fish as well. Over fifty percent of the fish caught is fed to livestock on factory farms and "regular" farms. It is an ingredient in the enriched "feed meal" fed to livestock. Farm animals, like cows, who by nature are vegans, are routinely force-fed fish as well as the flesh, blood, and manure of other animals. It may take sixteen pounds of grain to make one pound of beef, but it also takes one hundred pounds of fish to make that one pound of beef. ~ Sharon Gannon

You know, we all oppose animal cruelty. But sometimes we forget that animals on farms suffer and feel pain like all other animals. They, too, deserve to be protected from harm and cruelty. ~ Charlotte Ross

The drama of the sky dance is enacted nightly on hundreds of farms, the owners of which sigh for entertainment, but harbor the illusion that it is to be sought in theaters. They live on the land, but not by the land. ~ Aldo Leopold

The charming landscape which I saw this morning, is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm. ~ Stewart Brand

They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real. ~ Josh Turner

The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river were men of the moon. But we were all children of the white sun. ~ Rudolfo Anaya

Yoga may have originated in India, where the cow has been revered as sacred for thousands of years, but times have changed since Lord Krishna played his flute for the cows of Vrindavan. There are factory farms in India now. ~ Sharon Gannon

There are two main goals behind ALF actions. The first is obviously to remove as many animals as possible from fur farms, vivisection labs, and other areas of abuse. The second is to cause as much economic damage to these industries and persons as possible. ~ Jerry Vlasak

As the prosperity of the nation and the height of wage rates depend on a continual increase in the capital invested in its plants, mines and farms, it is one of the foremost tasks of good government to remove all obstacles that hinder the accumulation and investment of new capital. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

I think we're like farm animals before an earthquake. ~ Moby

Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities. ~ Liberty Hyde Bailey

Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again. ~ A.E. Housman

Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat. ~ Bill Nye

He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself. And he is not in the position to do any rescuing of his own. ~ Erin Morgenstern

Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops. ~ Laura Mennell

Martyrs of a sort they were, these children, along with the town drunk, in his basketball sneakers and buttonless overcoat, draining blackberry brandy from a paper bag as he sat on his bench in Kazmierczak Square, risking nightly death by exposure; martyrs too of a sort were the men and women hastening to adulterous trysts, risking disgrace and divorce for their fix of motel love - all sacrificing the outer world to the inner, proclaiming with this priority that everything solid-seeming and substantial is in fact a dream, of less account than a merciful rush of feeling. ~ John Updike

Nature is out there, and we can do what we like to it. We can cut down the rain forest. We can put animals in factory farms and slaughter them as we like. We can over-fish the oceans. We can pollute the rivers. We can pollute the water and change climate. We are somehow superior to nature. We are somehow rulers of nature. ~ Satish Kumar

I don't think of community as being a romantic notion. I think it's as vital as air and water, and so I think that informs a lot of what I write about. It could be a story about a couple, or a song about the slow death of the family farm or a small town. ~ Greg Brown

Apparently some rustlers had been swiping red-horned wildebeest from farms in the San Fedora area and transporting them off-world to other colonies where they would sell them. And these were known repeat offenders. He could make a packet if he got the whole bunch of them the same time. The pickings were kind of slim in Atro City lately and he could use the money. He didn't like feeling like a leech around Cindy-Mei. ~ Christina Engela

Yes! I hate everything about this country. Like, I hate fat white Americans. All the people who are crunched into the middle of America, the real fat and meat of America, are these racist conservative white people who live on their farms. Those little teenage girls who work at Kmart and have a racist grandma - that's really America ~ Azealia Banks

Some people may argue that if the animals are treated humanely prior to being slaughtered, this justifies their confinement and slaughter. Is it ethical to rob beings of their freedom but give them a comfortable prison and provide them with food until they become fat enough to be slaughtered? Any way you look at it, farms are places where animals are kept in preparation to be slaughtered and ultimately eaten as food. ~ Sharon Gannon

No one lives on the top of the mountain. It's fine to go there occasionally -for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in the valleys. That's where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the plowing and the work is done. That's where you apply the visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks. ~ Arthur Gordon Webster

I drive out to this quail farm, where I get a lot of these incredible quail eggs, which I eat all day long. And I eat a lot of superfoods like goji, cacao and chia seeds, things like that. And I like unpasteurised milk of the goat and the sheep. They send it once a week from Pennsylvania, from the Amish farms, and I get it in Los Angeles. ~ Vincent Gallo

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE. ~ George Orwell

Good God, girl!" shouted her uncle. "It was an army of individuals! They walked off their farms and walked to the War! ~ Harper Lee

The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property. ~ Charles Fort

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities. ~ Tom Allen

I like horse farms. I like the idea of animals growing on trees. ~ Jarod Kintz

Here above the farms and ranches of the Great Plains aviation lives up to the promise that inspired dreamers through the ages. Here you are truly separate from the earth, at least for a little while, removed from the cares and concerns that occupy you on the ground. This separation from the earth is more than symbolic, more than a physical removal-it has an emotional dimension as tangible as the wood, fabric, and steel that has transported you aloft. ~ Stephen Coonts

To see the farm is to leave it. ~ Stefan Molyneux

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food. ~ Rachel McAdams

This worked pretty well; the nests in gardens tended to grow much more quickly and become heavier than those on farms, presumably because they have more flowers. ~ Dave Goulson

Communal forests around the world are being turned into privatized tree farms and preserves so their owners can collect something called "carbon credits," a lucrative scam I'll explore later. ~ Naomi Klein

I got an ant farm; them fellas didn't grow sh*t. ~ Mitch Hedberg

We can start all the organic farms we want, but we can't stop congress from declaring pizza sauce a vegetable. ~ William Deresiewicz

The Butcher's Shop

The pigs are strung in rows, open-mouthed,
dignified in martyrs' deaths. They hang
stiff as Sunday manners, their porky heads
voting Tory all their lives, their blue rosettes
discarded now. The butcher smiles a meaty smile,
white apron stained with who knows what,
fingers fat as sausages. Smug, woolly cattle
and snowy sheep prance on tiles, grazing
on eternity, cute illustrations in a children's book.
What does the sheep say now?
Tacky sawdust clogs your shoes.
Little plastic hedges divide the trays of meat, playing farms.
playing farms. All the way home
your cold and soggy paper parcel bleeds. ~ Angela Topping

Extra time was spent on the farms in every biome, and in watching the feed from Earth. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson

Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn't need us? ~ Dwayne Andreas

Buy foods from nearby farms and have that food served in the cafeteria. ~ Alice Waters

Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments. ~ Bob Goodlatte

Animals on factory farms all face pain and fear, just like the animals we share our homes with, yet are repeatedly abused in shocking ways. ~ Peter Dinklage

I was raised on farms by people who didn't have Wal-Mart. They had to make their own sleds, harnesses, clothing, etc. ~ Gary Paulsen

We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part. ~ Jeff Sessions

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left? ~ Matthew Scully

Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms? ~ Winston Churchill

All those cities, all those fields and farms, with nobody, and nothing left alive. Just nothing there. I simply can't take it in. ~ Nevil Shute

I've got a farm in England where I breed horses. ~ Davy Jones

After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible. ~ George Nakashima

But if we do not dream, then I think perhaps we are misusing our heads. They are not on our shoulders only to be farms for hair. ~ Brian Doyle

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. ~ Karen Blixen

Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season. ~ Hesiod

So you're an environmentalist; why are you killing a distant river with every bite? "Energy-intensive US factory farms generated 1.4 billion tons of animal waste in 1996, which ... pollutes American waterways more than all other industrial sources combined. ~ Anonymous

Farm Aid was started in 1985 by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews as a concert to support small local farms in the U.S. ~ Rebecca Pidgeon

There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food. ~ Theodore Sturgeon

Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration. ~ Ramsay MacDonald

If someone at Fleet Farm offers you assistance and they don't work there you might live in Wisconsin. ~ Jeff Foxworthy

We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds. ~ Jim Bouton

I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Roy Rogers

My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop. ~ Peter Agre

I do not believe there was ever a life more attractive than life on a cattle farm. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week. ~ Jane Hamilton

Striking a balance between wildlife conservation and wind energy development starts with understanding threats to eagle populations and how our actions, including operating wind farms, are affecting them. ~ Frances Beinecke

Sometimes what I actually love to do is go to a farm and get fresh milk or watch a pig get slaughtered. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm ~ Stella Gibbons

Last year, the USDA said for the first time in 150 years that there were more farms in America instead of fewer. I think that's the single most hopeful statistic I know. ~ Bill McKibben

In other words, Foxx represented what Sarah Palin (speaking at a campaign fundraiser in Greensboro three weeks before the election) called "the real America," by which she did not mean fallow farms and disability checks and crack. ~ George Packer

There's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL. ~ Lee Iacocca

The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world. ~ David Wilkerson

When I was born here on one of the farms in Israel, my childhood, I never thought for one day that we will not be living together with Arabs. ~ Ariel Sharon

It was hard to get jobs on farms doing wool-classing, but I got them. They had to learn to like a female wool-classer. ~ Theresa Sjoquist

Many years from now, our descendants will look back on the use of animals for food - particularly the intense animal suffering in factory farms - as a moral atrocity. ~ Jacy Reese Anthis

Iowa looks exactly like Illinois. I am not sure why they bothered to separate them. Just an endless stretch of motorway and pig farms. (There is a distinction: Iowa smells more like pig shit than Illinois.) ~ Rainbow Rowell