Inside the Animal Farm

Farming has been on my mind. These pictures made me imagine George Orwell's classic novel Animal Farm. Trying to get into the mood to get down and dirty while working on the nitty gritty. Good start for the week and a free day in between too. Yahoo! 

"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself."

- George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 1

"The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master."
- George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 3

"No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?"
- George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 5

"All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work; they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well aware that everything they did was for the benefit of themselves and those of their kind who would come after them, and not for a pack of idle, thieving human beings."
- George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 6

"If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak."
- George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 7

"Besides, in those days they had been slaves and now they were free, and that made all the difference, as Squealer did not fail to point out."

- George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 9 

"Napoleon had denounced such ideas as contrary to the spirit of Animalism. The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and living frugally."
- George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 10 

*Photos were taken at Costales Nature Farm (May 2011)