Wool Production Quotes

The sorriest thing I had ever seen was a sheered sheep after he had been in the rain.

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.

All our measures should tend towards the immediate encouragement of our woolen manufactures, which must be looked upon as the basis of our wealth.

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.

A good shepherd shears his flock; he does not flay them

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

The local shepherd, I vividly remember his old Barbour jacket, with a hipflask in the pocket. It just feels very familiar - like part of my childhood. The smell of the wax. Whenever I put one on now, it just feels comforting.

The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool.

Sheep. I'm stuck in a boarding school filled with sheep.

After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm.

If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.

Sheep are just psychotic.

Alpacas are very endearing, and they all have very different personalities.

I love a good wool suit, and I appreciate the fact that it's a natural fiber. I know where it comes from, and I know how it's bred. And it's built to last. It breathes, and it feels good.

You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

The best sheep breeders are in Australia and New Zealand.

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

The Australians have a scientific approach and a very strong professionalism, a passion to do the best. Theirs is the best wool. And Loro Piana wants the best.

I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.

I knew that alpaca wool, with its cashmere-soft weave, had been transformed into cuddly knick-knacks ranging from pillows to teddy bears. But through selective breeding over the past 6,000 years, alpacas have so diverged from their llama cousins as to become quite different animals.

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.