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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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.
You need to work to get results.God Almighty first planted a garden.
Francis BaconGrass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.
Brian IngallsGreat oaks grow from little acorns.
Growing your own tomatoes is the best way to devote three months of your life to saving $2.17
(unknown author)Handsome cats and fat dungheaps are the sign of a good farmer.
He has a green thumb.
He has a natural skill for gardening or to make plants grow,He has green fingers.
He is green-fingered. He is good in making plants grow. A natural skill for gardening.He's sowing his wild oats.
Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
Alexander PopeHow we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.
Marion NestleI don’t sow ground nuts when the monkey is watching.
I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
George WashingtonI have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.
John SalazarI 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 WashingtonIf in February there be no rain, 'tis neither good for hay nor grain.
If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?
Tom BarrettIf we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.
Samuel JohnsonIf you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn.
If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest.
Douglas William JerroldImagine Italian food without tomatoes, Greek food without eggplant, Thai and Indonesian foods without peanut sauce, curries without chilies, hamburgers without French fries or ketchup, African food without cassava.
Bill BrysonSource: At Home
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In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.
Carol P. ChristIt is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously. I shall never forget the vehemence of the reaction.. much of it coming from the sort of people who regard agriculture as an industrial process, with production as the sole yardstick of success.
Prince CharlesIt is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.
David F. HoustonIt is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'
Wendell BerryIt is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
B.C. ForbesIt is the season not the soil that brings the crop.
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 CharlesKnowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.
Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
Thomas JeffersonLife on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.
Henri Alain LiogierLower your head modestly while passing and you will harvest bananas.
Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.
Norman BorlaugMen make the earth black from green leaves.
Mock the palm tree only when the date harvest is over.
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
Fred AllenNo one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.
H.L. MenckenOrganic farming has been shown to provide major benefits for wildlife and the wider environment. The best that can be said about genetically engineered crops is that they will now be monitored to see how much damage they cause.
Prince CharlesOur fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer.
Pliny the ElderOut of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven - corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats - account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors.
Bill BrysonSource: At Home
Pray for miracles, but plant cabbages.
Ken FollettSource: The Pillars of the Earth
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
Alfred NobelSmoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSo imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.
Steven ChuSowing is not as difficult as reaping.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTake rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
OvidTall oaks grow from little acorns.
Great things may come from small beginnings.The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
Marcus Tullius CiceroLatin: Abores serit diligens agricola, quarum adspiciet baccam ipse numquam.
The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
Arthur KeithThe earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.
BibleSource: Mark 4:28
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