Farming is not just a job, it’s a way of life
Agriculture! One thing that makes us survive on this planet.
Agriculture is not just a job, but a way of life, rooted in tradition, hard work and connection to the earth.
Agriculture is not just a source of food, but also a source of inspiration, beauty and connection to the natural world.
Country without a farmer is a tree without a fruit.
Teach the young minds the agriculture rather than technology.
– Sipho P Nkosi
Agriculture is a fundamental source of national prosperity.
– J. J. Mapes
No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.
– H. L. Mencken
The farmer works the soil, The agriculturist works the farmer.
– Eugene F. Ware
Agriculture was the first occupation of man, and as it embraces the whole earth, it is the foundation of all other industries.
– E. W. Stewart
Some of us grew up playing with tractors, the lucky ones still do
To most people, this is just dirt. To a farmer, it is potential.
Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
– Thomas Jefferson
Agriculture is civilization.
– E. Emmons
Agriculture for an honorable and high-minded man, is the best of all occupations and arts by which men procure the means of living.
I believe in the future of agriculture, with a faith born not of words but of deeds
Cultivators are the most valuable citizens…they are tied to their country.
– Thomas Jefferson
Agriculture is not just about growing crops, it’s about nourishing communities and preserving the earth.
Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
– William Jennings Bryan
A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection.
– E. H. Derby
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
– Masanobu Fukuoka
Agriculture is at the core of the state.
– Dave Cook
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
Agriculture is not a solitary pursuit, it’s about collaboration, innovation and progress for the betterment of all.
The importance of agriculture is not just in its economic value, but in its role in shaping human civilization.
The demand for organic food is growing at a remarkable rate. Consumers have made it clear that they want organic produce and every sector of the food chain is responding, with the kind of results we have just seen.
– Prince Charles
Agriculture is not just a science, but an art, requiring knowledge, skill and intuition to be successful.
The future of agriculture is not just about increasing yields, but about sustainable practices that protect the planet.
An agricultural life is one eminently calculated for human happiness and human virtue.
– C. L. Allen
The true value of agriculture is not just in the food it produces, but in the stewardship it provides for the land.
Agricultural growth is a proven driver of poverty reduction. When agriculture stimulates growth … the growth is twice as effective in reducing poverty as growth based in other sectors.
– Giza Mdoe
In undertaking farming we undertake a responsibility covering the whole life cycle. We can break it or keep it whole.
– Lord Northbourne
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
– Dr. Carl Sagan
The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
– Cato The Elder
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
Agriculture is not just about feeding the world, but also about preserving cultural heritage and biodiversity.
Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it’s liberty and interests by the most lasting bands
– Thomas Jefferson
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own
– Samuel Johnson
Agriculture is the Archimedean lever which, though it does not move a world, tends to fill it with plenty, with moral health, and human happiness.
– J. Buel
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman’s cares.
– George Washington
He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.
– Douglas Jerrold
It is vitally important that we can continue to say, with absolute conviction, that organic farming delivers the highest quality, best-tasting food, produced without artificial chemicals or genetic modification, and with respect for animal welfare and the environment, while helping to maintain the landscape and rural communities.
– Prince Charles
No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
The backbone of agriculture is not just the farmers, but the communities and ecosystems that support them.
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
– Socrates
And he gave it for his opinion, “that 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
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
Our fathers used to say that the master’s eye was the best fertilizer.
– Caius Plinius Secundus
Agriculture has become essential to life; the forest, the lake, and the ocean cannot sustain the increasing family of man; population declines with a declining cultivation, and nations have ceased to be with the extinction of their agriculture.
– E. H. Derby
Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.
– Bernard Baruch
To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven….a time to be born & a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted.
Our farmers deserve praise, not condemnation; and their efficiency should be cause for gratitude, not something for which they are penalized.
– President John F. Kennedy
In no other country do so few people produce so much food, to feed so many, at such reasonable prices.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in their natural-their destined occupation.
– Burke
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
It will not be doubted that with reference either to individual or national welfare, agriculture is of primary importance.
– President George Washington
The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.
– President John F. Kennedy
The population of the world is growing and agriculture feeds the world and so if we do the math, there are more mouths to feed and the demand for agriculture products is increasing…. If we’re looking at agriculture as an industry, not having skilled people to do the jobs, that is a problem.
– Drew Cotton
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
– G. K. Chesterton
Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and wandering shepherd, into that of social man, gathered into fixed communities and surrounding himself with the comforts and blessings of neighborhood, country, and home. It is agriculture alone, that fixes men in stationary dwellings, in villages, in towns, and cities, and enables the work of civilizations, in all its branches, to go on.
– Edward Everett
If you do just one thing-make one conscious choice-that can change the world, go organic. Buy organic food. Stop using chemicals and start supporting organic farmers. No other single choice you can make to improve the health of your family and the planet will have greater positive repercussions for our future.
– Maria Rodale
Agriculture is always going to be a top priority, everybody’s going to always need to eat and everybody’s going to always need some help with that so as long as you’re willing to put in the hours, there’s a job there for you.
– Brady Blasher
Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?
– Jane Goodall
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