{"id":946,"date":"2023-01-18T21:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T21:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/khetwise.com\/blog\/homesteading-quotes\/"},"modified":"2023-01-18T21:00:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T21:00:45","slug":"homesteading-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/khetwise.com\/blog\/homesteading-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Homesteading Quotes To Empower And Inspire"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the founding fathers to more modern day pioneers of the regenerative agriculture, permaculture, and homesteading movements, there is no shortage of places to look for inspiration on your homesteading journey. We have compiled a list of 25 of our favorite homesteading quotes that have inspired us to pursue this lifestyle.<\/p>\n

Several of the individuals quoted here were featured in the book, Letters to a Young Farmer<\/a>. This is a favorite book of ours and one that was particularly inspiring and helpful as we were beginning to contemplate homesteading and farming in our lives. And it gave us tons of inspiring homesteading quotes that we have been ruminating on ever since. Head to the bottom of this post to learn more about our story and homesteading resources!<\/p>\n

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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” \u2013Theodore Roosevelt<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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“Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farm.” \u2013Bernard Baruch<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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“Strong communities are built around local, real food. Food we trust to nourish our bodies, the farmer and planet.” \u2013Kimbal Musk<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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“Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well-groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile farm any less cultural, any less artful, than paintings of fat angels on church ceilings?” \u2013Gene Logsdon<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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“Our land is like a poem, in a patchwork landscape of other poems, written by hundreds of people, both those here now and the many hundreds who came before us, with each generation adding new layers of meaning and experience.” \u2013James Rebanks<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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“Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please tell me I’m not the only one who believes this. Please. As a culture, we think we’re well educated, but I’m not sure that what we’ve learned necessarily helps us survive.” \u2013Joel Salatin<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cI think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.\u201d \u2013Andy Warhol<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cWe must begin making long-term, permanent change in a world of short-term thinking. In a world impatient for a quick fix, we must continue to make the long, steady progress needed toward a rich, green, abundant world, started by planting one tree at a time and repeated over and over around the world.\u201d \u2013Mark Shepherd<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cLife is either a daring adventure or nothing.\u201d \u2013Helen Keller<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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“Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.” \u2013Robin Wall Kimmerer<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cA farm is a manipulative creature. There is no such thing as finished. Work comes in a stream and has no end. There are only things that must be done now and things that can be done later.\u201d \u2013Kristin Kimball<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cAgriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.\u201d \u2013Thomas Jefferson<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cWe have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.\u201d \u2013Wendell Berry<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cDo what you love to do, and be around things that make you smile. The cows make me smile every day.\u201d \u2013David Jackson<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cThe fight to save family farms isn’t just about farmers. It\u2019s about making sure that there is a safe and healthy food supply for all of us. It’s about jobs, from Main Street to Wall Street. It’s about a better America.\u201d \u2013Willie Nelson<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cI am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.\u201d \u2013Laura Ingalls Wilder<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cYou can solve all the world’s problems in a garden.\u201d \u2013Geoff Lawton<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cWhen we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families’ tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.\u201d \u2013Barbara Kingsolver<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cSome people buy lottery tickets. I plant potatoes.\u201d \u2013Jill Winger<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cDespite all of our accomplishments, we owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.\u201d \u2013Paul Harvey<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cI think America\u2019s food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, it\u2019s very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.\u201d \u2013Alice Waters<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cUltimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy, or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process \u2013 green plants growing on regenerating soil.\u201d \u2013Allan Savory<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cIs there any practice less selfish, any time less wasted than preparing something nourishing and delicious for the people you love?\u201d \u2013Michael Pollan<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” \u2013Mahatma Gandhi<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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“Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion.” \u2013Simon Sinek<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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If you’re at the stage where you’re searching for the right homestead property, we share our own search story and what we learned along the way in this video.<\/p>\n

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