What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them.
John LubbockTags: inspirational perspective seeing flowers artists game botanists farmer fossils geologists sight sportsmen
We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.
Paul NewmanTags: inspirational buddhism environment sustainability farmer sainthood
Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, living all alone on the Siberian tundra. Day after day you plow your fields. As far as the eye can see, nothing. To the north, the horizon, to the east, the horizon, to the south, to the west, more of the same. Every morning, when the sun rises in the east, you go out to work in your fields. When it's directly overhead, you take a break for lunch. When it sinks in the west, you go home to sleep. And then one day, something inside you dies. Day after day you watch the sun rise in the east, pass across the sky, then sink in the west, and something breaks inside you and dies. You toss your plow aside and, your head completely empty of thought, begin walking toward the west. Heading toward a land that lies west of the sun. Like someone, possessed, you walk on, day after day, not eating or drinking, until you collapse on the ground and die. That's hysteria siberiana.
Haruki MurakamiTags: madness alone emptiness farmer siberia arctic hysteria-siberiana
Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.
Criss JamiTags: money equality work self-worth meaning value writer labor worth hard-work career occupation income farmer comedian nurse bigger-picture
A farmer friend of mine told me recently about a busload of middle school children who came to his farm for a tour. The first two boys off the bus asked, "Where is the salsa tree?" They thought they could go pick salsa, like apples and peaches. Oh my. What do they put on SAT tests to measure this? Does anybody care? How little can a person know about food and still make educated decisions about it? Is this knowledge going to change before they enter the voting booth? Now that's a scary thought.
Joel SalatinTags: education knowledge voting farmer farming
A good farmer never plants all his seeds in a single piece of land.
Habeeb AkandeTags: wisdom seeds plants farmer
Life often is a bucket of water sitting on a farmer’s porch. Our choice is in the drinking.
Harley KingTags: life choice life-lessons farmer
He was born to be a farmer. It was something that he was good at, something he knew well. He was a giver of life, an alchemist that worked in dirt, seed, and manure.
Tracy WinegarTags: romance farmer farming farming-hope-trauma
In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: society food sanity survival farmer sustenance economist
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