Quotes of Farming - somelinesforyou

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work. ”

- Cato the Elder

“ We need a comprehensive, ambitious agreement to cut barriers to trade in the three key areas: agriculture, non-agricultural market access, and services. ”

- Tony Blair

“ You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think. ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer. ”

- Eugene F. Ware

“ Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ”

- Orson Scott Card

“ The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Three acres and a cow. ”

- Jeremy Bentham

“ In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy. ”

- Robert Brault

“ Blessed be agriculture! If one does not have too much of it. ”

- Charles Dudley

“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. ”

- Bill Watterson

“ Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. ”

- Unknown

“ Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. ”

- Unknown

“ You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ”

- Unknown

“ Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest. - Thomas Tusser. ”

- Thomas Tusser

“ Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain. ”

- George Crabbe

“ Like a gardener I believe what goes down must come up. ”

- Lynwood L. Giacomini

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

- Henri Alain

“ Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. ”

- Ruth Stout

“ There is no gilding of setting sun or glamour of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives. ”

- Hamlin Garland

“ The master's eye is the best fertilizer. ”

- Pliny the Elder

“ The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Flowers grow in inches, but are destroyed by feet. ”

- Unknown

“ What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. ”

- Charles Dudley Warner

“ Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real. ”

- Pat Roberts

“ Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture. ”

- Jean Cocteau
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