Michael Sims Quotes

If a man farms his land to the waste of the soil or the tress, he destroys not only his own assets but Nature's assets.

Anything to do with the land, I love.

I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.

The naturalist worldview is a good way to feel grounded and feel part of something that isn't based on fairy tales. It's based on observable facts in the human and in the biological history of the planet. I think that can be a source for comfort.

I'm certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death.

We have to stop treating soil like dirt.

Some environmentalists demands are counter productive. Avoiding pesticides for example means farming more land less efficiently, which leads to higher prices, more hunger, more disease …, and less biodiversity.

If I wasn't acting, I would own a farm. Not like growing crops but maybe have a few animals like cows, and maybe an alpaca or a llama. I would chop wood all day. I would make a living doing that; it's, like, an idealistic scenario for me. It's very contrary to my upbringing, but maybe that's the appeal to it.

I grew up on the lake and spent most of that time outdoors. As a musician, I travel widely around the country and talk to a lot of people, from all walks of life. That experience, combined with my rock and roll roots gives me something of an affinity for the underdog. In many ways, the environment is also the underdog - so, it's an easy fit.

I'm a farm guy, so I like to work outside, dealing with the trees and that kind of stuff.

Before trying my hand at acting, I use to cultivate my own land with my father.

If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.

Be a gentleman farmer.

Growing things and being able to live off the land has always appealed to me.

I know more about wheat and olive trees than I do about politics.

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

My grandparents were always farmers.

I basically grew up in the backwoods.

I want to pursue farming, and what better place to do it than at a hill station, which has a cool climate almost through the year.

I think protecting rural England is more important than any work I do as an actress.

Spreading manure is a great way of bringing yourself down to earth.

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

I wanted to do life, do something interesting. I ran out of things I wanted to say in my music, so I just put it down, sold all my gear, and put on some overalls and reconnected with the soil.

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

I grew up in the English countryside, raising ducks and chickens.