Matthew Daddario Quotes

It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm.

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

I always believe in living in the country, because that's where what I eat is what I can put back in the dirt.

It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.

I want to get a farm where I am going to live for the rest of my life. I like the idea of a secluded place.

Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.

I grew up in a very modest home. We grew a lot of our food in our backyard. We fished; my brothers hunted.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.

Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.

Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.

I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life.

Three acres and a cow.

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

I can't wait to get back to the ranch and go back to easy living.

We lived off the land in Italy.

My grandmother had a courtyard of animals, like goats and chickens. She made ricotta cheese, cooked with potatoes warm from the garden, grew everything from beans to wheat. It was simple, seasonal food, and we all ate what was produced 10 miles from where we lived. It was that way for centuries.

I've picked butter beans, okra, watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew. I've butchered pigs, chickens. We made our own sausage and pudding.

Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.

I have a farm in Vermont; that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!

I worked on a farm for a little bit.

Homesteading is gone.

My plan was to release a tape, move to Arkansas, live on a farm, and make music like Bon Iver.

I would be happy living on a massive ranch in Montana and not seeing anyone except my friends and family.

I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm.