“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
PinAgriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness. – Thomas JeffersonPinThe 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. KennedyPinAgriculture is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man. –George WashingtonPinWhen tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. – Daniel WebsterPinThose too lazy to plow in the right season will have no food at the harvest. — Proverbs 20:4PinFarming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the cornfield. — President Dwight D. EisenhowerPinNo race can prosper until it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. – Booker T. WashingtonPinIf agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right. – M. S. SwaminathanPinFarming 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
PinThe ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. – Masanobu FukuokaPinAgriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. – Samuel JohnsonPinAs long as there’s a few farmers out there, we’ll keep fighting for them. – Willie NelsonPinIt is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. – B. C. ForbesPinI would rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world. – George WashingtonPinAgriculture 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 ChatfieldPinThe farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer. — Will RogersPinA good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. – E.B. WhitePinWe have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture. – Alice WatersPinTo 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.”
PinWe have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist. – Wendell BerryPinTo make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit. – Sam FarrPinFarming 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 KoehlerPinThe story of family farming underscores a legacy of sustainability. – Amanda ZaluckyjPinI think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. – Andy WarholPinMy 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 SchoeppPinThe 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
PinMy dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner. – Lenny KravitzPinLife on a farm is a school of patience; you can’t hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. – Henri AlainPinFarming isn’t something that can be taught. Each plant tells its own story that has to be read repeatedly. — Kelsey TimmermanPinFrankly, any city person who doesn’t think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn’t deserve my special food. – Joel SalatinPinOne of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. ― W.E. JohnsPinThe discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life. – Arthur KeithPinTo be a farmer is to be a student forever, for each day brings something new. – John ConnellPinAgriculture was the first occupation of man, and as it embraces the whole earth, it is the foundation of all other industries. — Edward W. StewartPinIt feels good at the end of the day to know you made a product that other people are going to enjoy. – Jericho SanchezPinCultivators are the most valuable citizens… they are tied to their country. — Thomas JeffersonPinWho sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all. — John Greenleaf Whittier
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