About 10,000 years ago we invented agriculture. The following quotes and proverbs all relate to agriculture, farming and the cultivation of crops.
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The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
Will RogersThe farmer hopes for rain, the walker hopes for sunshine, and the gods hesitate.
The farmer works the soil. The agriculturist works the farmer.
Eugene F. WareThe farmers are the founders of civilization.
Daniel WebsterThe first and last profession: Agriculture!
MinkukelThe first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe garden is the poor man's apothecary.
The gardener's hands are black with earth but his loaves are white.
The grass is always greener on the other side.
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Milton FriedmanThe greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its agriculture.
Thomas JeffersonThe hardworking farmer should be the first to receive a share of the crops.
BibleThe heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
OvidThe impact of climate change on agriculture could result in problems with food security and may threaten livelihood activities upon which much of the population depends.
Ian PearsonThe nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing.
BibleSource: Proverbs 20:4
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
Masanobu FukuokaThe way of cultivation is not easy. He who plants a garden plants happiness.
The word agriculture, after all, does not mean 'agriscience,' much less 'agribusiness.' It means 'cultivation of land'.
Wendell BerryThere 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 FranklinThis is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions.
Yuval Noah HarariSource: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Tickle it with a hoe and it will laugh into a harvest.
Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.
OvidTo sell cucumbers to the gardener.
A useless act.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.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonWater is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.
Jim CostaWe did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.
Yuval Noah HarariSource: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
We farmers ought not to have much time for reading; yet somehow one can't help it.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: Cranford
We used to be a nation of farmers, but now it's less than two percent of the population in the United States. So a lot of us don't know a lot about what it takes to grow food.
What are you picking now is that what you planted before.
When gnats swarm in January, the peasant becomes a beggar.
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
Daniel WebsterWhile working on the factory floor is often referred to as sweatshop labor, it is often better than the granddaddy of all sweatshops: working in the fields as an agricultural day laborer.
Steven RadeletWith a good farm, garden and vineyard, all your problems will be cured.
With the advent of industrial farming and the green revolution, organic farming was relegated to the status of 'quaint' or 'old-fashioned'.. something practiced by hippies on communes, certainly not by serious farmers.
David SuzukiWithout sowing a single wheat you would not harvest thousand ones.
You can make a small fortune in farming - provided you start with a large one.
(unknown author)You can never sow rice and expect to harvest maize.
You can't reap a field of grass one blade at a time.
Ken FollettSource: World Without End
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