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
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.
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own – Samuel Johnson
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
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
In no other country do so few people produce so much food, to feed so many, at such reasonable prices. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
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
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history. – Dr. Carl Sagan
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
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
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
He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky. – Douglas Jerrold
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
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
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
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat. – Socrates
Our fathers used to say that the master’s eye was the best fertilizer. – Caius Plinius Secundus
It will not be doubted that with reference either to individual or national welfare, agriculture is of primary importance. – President George Washington
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