Farming Quotes

• Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Nature, Motivation

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.798, Best Books on

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Nature, Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.379, Rajpal & Sons

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• 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 F. Kennedy

  Men, Retail, Pay

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Farming is a profession of hope

  Brian Brett

  Profession

  Brian Brett (2009). “Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life”, p.16, Greystone Books Ltd

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• The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

  Wendell Berry

  Journey, Garden, Land

  "The Unsettling of America". Book by Wendell Berry, 1977.

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• 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.

  Aldo Leopold

  Spiritual, Two, Supposing That

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.6, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

  Nelson Henderson

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  "Under Whose Shade". Book by Wesley Henderson, 1982.

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Real, Silly, Garden

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.252

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• Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

  Aldo Leopold

  Animal, Garden, Land

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.216, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Art, Garden, Land

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• Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

  Cato the Elder

  Agriculture, Late, Farmers

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• 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

  Life, Cheating, Real

  Benjamin Franklin (1819). “Memoirs of the life and writings of B.F. ...”, p.60

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• Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Flower, Garden, Tree

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.249

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• On a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye.

  Pliny the Elder

  Eye, Masters, Farmers

  "Natural History".

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• Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.

  E. W. Howe

  Time, Worry, Growing

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

  Henri Alain Liogier

  School, Two, Agriculture

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• The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Perfect, Balance, Principles

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• Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Funny, Humor, Garden

  Of Australia. The Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold (published 1859),'A Land of Plenty'.

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• The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Nature, Science, Land

  Letter to all State Governors on a Uniform Soil Conservation Law, February 26, 1937.

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• Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Interesting, Poor, Proportion

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.121, Graphic Arts Books

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• Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.

  Zola Budd

  Running, Growing Up, Shoes

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• The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.

  Robert Mugabe

  Country, Taken, Equality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Motivational, Death, Nature

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• We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Animal, Hunting

  July 17, 1971 interview quoted in "Breath of Fresh Air", edited by Nicholas Schneider, p. 180, 2008.

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• What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.

  Nathan Deal

  Agriculture, Fetus, Purpose

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