Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.
The wealth of a nation lies in its soil.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Farming is not just a job. It's a way of life.
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man.
Agriculture is the backbone of any country.
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts.
To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.
The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
Farming is a profession of hope.
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.