Quotes about Agriculture
The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.
— Ezra Taft Benson
If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.
— Wendell Berry
Our land only rewards those who work hard in it.
— Isabel Allende
The General was right. No one dies of hunger here - you reach out your hand and pluck a mango. That's why there is no progress. Cold countries have more advanced civilizations because the climate forces people to work.
— Isabel Allende
Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if He ever had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
— Thomas Jefferson
There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for love.
— Wendell Berry
Where was the lecture on how slavery alone catapulted the whole country from agriculture into the industrial age in two decades? White folks' hatred, their violence, was the gasoline that kept the profit motors running.
— Toni Morrison
We like that a sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.
— Henry David Thoreau
It was no longer a matter of growing a fat crop, only of growing enough for the seed not to die out. There will be another year, he consoled himself, another summer in which to try again.
— JM Coetzee
My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.
— Margaret Atwood
He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.
— Henry Ward Beecher