The workers who harvest our food have been systematically denied the basic rights that are granted to all other American workers. They can be fired for trying to form a union or for attempting to improve their working conditions. They are not eligible for overtime pay, disability, or even unemployment insurance.
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I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harvest without even knowing I was learning it. On the farm, you learn early that you reap what you sow.
Where love germinates, peace is harvested!
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun.
Robots will harvest, cook, and serve our food. They will work in our factories, drive our cars, and walk our dogs. Like it or not, the age of work is coming to an end.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.
The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.
We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.
I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things.
Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.
Dry August and warm Doth harvest no harm.
The harvest truly is plenteous but the labourers are few.
All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn,Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding
Only the people who are working the victory by faith will experience the joy of harvest