Farming Quotes

"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."

"The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings."

Masanobu Fukuoka

"Eating is an agricultural act."

Wendell Berry

"Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days."

Henri Alain

“The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.”

“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”

“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself.”

“Eating is an agricultural act.”

Wendell Berry

“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”

Masanobu Fukuoka

“Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.”

Charles Dudley Warner

“Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?”

The Bible (Isaiah 28:24)

“I come now to the pleasures of husbandry, in which I vastly delight.”

Cicero

“The farmer in the dell, the farmer in the dell, heigh-ho, the derry-o, the farmer in the dell.”

Mother Goose

“There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle.”

“Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.”

Jonathan Swift