Top 64 Farming Quotes

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Farming is one of the most important jobs in the world. Without it we wouldn’t have any food. With that in mind, check out the top 64 farming quotes.

#64 – 60. Farming Quotes

64. Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can’t hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. – Henri Alain

63. There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable. – Fawn M. Brodie

62. To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit. – Sam Farr

61. There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. 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, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry. – Benjamin Franklin

60. Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness. – Thomas Jefferson

#59 – 50. Farming Quotes

59. As long as there’s a few farmers out there, we’ll keep fighting for them. – Willie Nelson

58. If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors. – Walter Scott

57. Farming is a profession of hope. – Brian Brett

56. I’ve got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out. – Jessica Alba

55. Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field. -Dwight D Eisenhower

54. Agriculture is the noblest of all alchemy; for it turns earth, and even manure, into gold, conferring upon its cultivator the additional reward of health. – Paul Chatfield

53. Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state. – Thomas Jefferson

52. Agriculture would dry up. There wouldn’t be any agriculture. There wouldn’t be enough people to get the job done. – Ben Shelton

51. Agriculture looks different today – our farmers are using GPS and you can monitor your irrigation systems over the Internet. – Debbie Stabenow

50. We’re still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week. – Willie Nelson

#49 – 40. Farming Quotes

49. Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man. – George Washington

48. No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer. – H. L. Mencken

47. We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist. – Wendell Berry

46. The master’s eye is the best fertilizer. – Pliny The Elder

45. A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. – E.B. White

44. There is no gilding of setting sun or glamour of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers wives. – Hamlin Garland

43. Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man. – George Washington

42. It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one’s strength and one’s days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day’s work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil. – George Sand

41. For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

40. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. – Masanobu Fukuoka

#39 – 30. Farming Quotes

39. If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest. – Douglas Jerrold

38. He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted — and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone. – Ellen Glasgow

37. Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living. – Xenophon

36. Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

35. African agriculture depends on labor. You can’t produce crops if there is nobody to work on the farms. – Annmarie Kormawa

34. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. – Andy Warhol

33. Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain. – George Crabbe

32. Organic farming has been shown to provide major benefits for wildlife and the wider environment. The best that can be said about genetically engineered crops is that they will now be monitored to see how much damage they cause. – Prince Charles

31. Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind. – Joseph Joubert

30. With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. – Bertrand Russell

#29 – 20. Farming Quotes

29. It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops. – David F. Houston

28. Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery. – George Segal

27. Farming is a most senseless pursuit, a mere laboring in a circle. You sow that you may reap, and then you reap that you may sow. Nothing ever comes of it. – Joannes Stobaeus

26. So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel. – Daryl Hannah

25. The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer. – Will Rogers

24. It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work. – Cato the Elder

23. Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time. – Edgar Watson Howe

22. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. – Daniel Webster

21. A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop it would diversify its crops to suit the earth. – Verlyn Klinkenborg

20. It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. – B. C. Forbes

#19 – 10. Farming Quotes

19. There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. – Bill Bryson

18. The great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms, and grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. – William Jennings Bryan

17. Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with less care at lower cost. – Matthew Scully

16. You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

15. If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science. – Samuel Johnson

14. Like a gardener I believe what goes down must come up. – Lynwood L. Giacomini

13. It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work. – Cato The Elder

12. Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization. – Daniel Webster

11. Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world. – Edwin Markham

10. The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life. – Arthur Keith

#9 – 1. Farming Quotes

9. Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can’t be like the farming techniques of yore. – Homaro Cantu

8. Farm policy, although it’s complex, can be explained. What it can’t be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrant has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy. – P. J. O’Rourke

7. I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it. – George Sand

6. Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. – Samuel Johnson

5. The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

3. The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men. – R. Pocock

2. Farmers only worry during the growing season, but towns people worry all the time. – Edward W. Howe

1. The master’s eye is the best fertilizer. – Pliny the Elder

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