Wendell Berry Quotes

My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!

It was a small farm in a little rural town by the Indiana state border. I lived there from ages 5 to 12, I would say, before we moved to Dallas. We had chickens and a vegetable garden, and I had to get up to milk the goats at seven in the morning or do it at seven at night.

Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

My earliest memory was going to my grandma's house, milking the cows, and collecting the eggs from the chickens.

I grew up on a farm. We had 11 dogs and, like, 1,500 cattle.

I grew up on a farm, and I think I would have come back and done something like that. It's an honest way of life, a conservative way of life, simple way of life.

When you grow up on a farm, you grow up fast.

We like horses and we like dogs and we like to be in the midst of agriculture.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

People are wanted on the farms to raise corn and grow stock for the markets; but they are wanted there far more for the training of manhood and womanhood in moral worth, in religious sensibility, in all the traits of a strong, upright personality. In the future as never heretofore, our cities with their multiplying wealth and lavish luxury are likely to need the country for that steady renewal of their better life which shall keep them from relaxing into sensuality and sinking into decay.

Farm life requires teamwork to a greater degree than any other way of life.

In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.

My first love was, and remains, manual labor; sowing and harvesting, the pastures, the flock, and the cattle.

I grew up on a working farm. It was small, a hundred acres, but we had cows and pigs and chickens and sheep and a vegetable garden. I spent hours pulling weeds, hoeing, feeding the horses, cleaning out the stalls. My dad was a tough taskmaster. I always worked, but we also had fun.

I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.

I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.

I've got a different life. I live up on a farm; I don't have anything to do with social media.

I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.

My grandparents were always farmers.

Fancy GPS systems and space-age tractors are what most excite the farmers I know and astound their city friends.

I'm a country boy at heart. I love it when you've got your boots on and you're standing in three inches of cow muck.

I grew up on a pig farm, about 2,500 pigs - we had way more pigs than people.

Probably 99 percent of Nuba are subsistence farmers. They have maybe two or three cattle, a few goats. Now there are food shortages, so they're very thin. But traditionally, they are very strong and muscular. They grow sorghum, okra, a bit of corn, some peanuts. If they need money, they'll sell one of their animals or sell some sorghum.

My girlfriend comes from a farming background and I spend a lot of time at her farm doing farming stuff. When you're pulling lambs out, or weighing them or worming them or doing whatever you do to sheep you're not thinking about Brett Lee.