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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
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White
No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.
H. L. Mencken
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
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.
Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.
George Crabbe
Like a gardener I believe what goes down must come up.
Lynwood L. Giacomini
The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.
R. Pocock
The master's eye is the best fertilizer.
Pliny the Elder
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
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
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
Daniel Webster
To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe,to plant seeds and watch their renewal of life -this is the commonest delight of the race,the most satisfactory thing a man can do.
Charles Dudley Warner
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
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
Bill Bryson
We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.
Paulo Coelho
The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer.
Eugene F. Ware
There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. To avoid the first danger, one should plant a garden, preferably where there is no grocer to confuse the issue. To avoid the second, he should lay a split of good oak on the andirons, preferably where there is no furnace, and let it warm his shins while a February blizzard tosses the trees outside. If one has cut, split, hauled, and piled his own good oak, and let his mind work the while, he will remember much about where heat comes from, and with a wealth of detail denied to those who spend the weekend in town astride a radiator.
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Alma
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.
Henry David Thoreau
Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
