41 Inspirational Agriculture Quotes (FARMING LIFE)

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Top 10 Most Famous Agriculture Quotes (BEST)

“I 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 Salazar

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness. – Thomas Jefferson — Agriculture is our **wisest** pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real **wealth**, good morals, and **happiness**. – **Thomas Jefferson**

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 — 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**

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man. - George Washington — Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man. –**George Washington**

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. – Daniel Webster

Those too lazy to plow in the right season will have no food at the harvest. — Proverbs 20:4

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the cornfield. — President Dwight D. Eisenhower — Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the cornfield. — **President Dwight D. Eisenhower**

No race can prosper until it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. – Booker T. Washington — No race can prosper until it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in **writing** a poem. – Booker T. Washington

If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right. - M. S. Swaminathan — If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a **chance** to go right. – M. S. Swaminathan

Farming is a profession of hope. — Brett Brian — Farming is a profession of **hope**. — Brett Brian

11 Inspirational Quotes on Agriculture (FARMING)

“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.”
Wendell Berry

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. - Masanobu Fukuoka — The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. – Masanobu Fukuoka

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. – Samuel Johnson

As long as there’s a few farmers out there, we’ll keep fighting for them. – Willie Nelson

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. – B. C. Forbes — It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. – **B. C. Forbes**

I would rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world. – George Washington — I would rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world. – **George Washington**

Agriculture is the noblest of all alchemy; for it turns earth, and even manure, into gold, conferring upon its cultivator the additional reward of health. — Paul Chatfield — Agriculture is the noblest of all **alchemy**; for it turns earth, and even manure, into **gold**, conferring upon its cultivator the additional reward of **health**. — Paul Chatfield

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer. — Will Rogers — The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer. — **Will Rogers**

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. – E.B. White

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture. - Alice Waters — We have to bring **children** into a new **relationship** to food that connects them to **culture** and agriculture. – Alice Waters

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. — Mahatma Gandhi — To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. — **Mahatma Gandhi**

8 Wise Agriculture Quotes that Will Make You Think (WISDOM)

“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 Friedman

We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist. – Wendell Berry

To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit. - Sam Farr — To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit. – Sam Farr

Farming isn’t a battle against nature, but a partnership with it. It is respecting the basics of nature in action and ensuring that they continue. – Jeff Koehler — Farming isn’t a battle against **nature**, but a **partnership** with it. It is respecting the basics of nature in action and ensuring that they continue. – Jeff Koehler

The story of family farming underscores a legacy of sustainability. – Amanda Zaluckyj — The story of family farming underscores a **legacy** of sustainability. – Amanda Zaluckyj

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. – Andy Warhol

My grandfather used to say that once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, and a preacher. But every day, three times a day, you need a farmer. — Brenda Schoepp

The fundamental for the sustainable growth of Nigeria is not in the hydro-carbon industry but in agriculture. - Yemi Osinbajo — The fundamental for the sustainable **growth** of Nigeria is not in the hydro-carbon industry but in agriculture. – Yemi Osinbajo

12 Motivational Quotes to Inspire You to be a Farmer

“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