Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Three acres and a cow.

It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air.

Well, it's a little odd, the path I took, because when I was young, I wanted to be a cattle rancher. That was what I knew and that was what I liked.

'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'

The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here.

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was growing up, and I've been obsessed with the practical logic of farmyards - the turning radius of tractors, where the chickens and ducks might go. It's not a place where stand-alone aesthetic decisions make a lot of sense.

Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.

Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.

My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.

I have always wanted to open up a brewery slash goat farm. Brew some beer, make some goat cheese, but that's kinda dreamy.

Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.

To preserve the buffalo as a species, the best thing we can do is eat them. Animals that people eat do not become extinct. That's why we have so many more chickens than bald eagles in this country.

All the farmers in this area have electricity, even in their barns. There have been times where the writing of a book is just as important as the milking of a cow.

In many parts of Ireland the breed of cows is so wretched that feeding them involves a certain loss of land.

New Mexico's agricultural economy is primarily composed of dairy and range livestock production.

When we get peace in Afghanistan, we'll go to New Zealand to learn best practices for raising sheep. We'll go to Switzerland and study hydroelectric projects.

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.

Agriculture involves crop husbandry, animal husbandry, forestry and fisheries. Your income will go up only if you look at the system, and not from one crop alone.

Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.

It's all right to pull the cow out of the mud on Sunday, provided that you don't push him in on Saturday night.

As human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.

I know a man in Ft. Worth with 100,000 head of cattle. No bodies, just heads.

The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.