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  • There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.

    Gold   Debt   Treasure  
    "No Man Knows My History". Book by Fawn M. Brodie, Chapter 2, 1945.
  • Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

  • Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery.

    Land   Space   Water  
    Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.93, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

    Flower   Garden   Tree  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.249
  • Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

    Hoe   Age   World  
    'The Man with the Hoe' (1899)
  • The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

    Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.18, Hackett Publishing
  • The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.

    Men   Retail   Pay  
    John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books
  • A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

    Men   White   Farming  
    E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.109, Cornell University Press
  • Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.121, Graphic Arts Books
  • It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.

    George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.17
  • Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.

  • With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

    Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.57, W. W. Norton & Company
  • On a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye.

    Eye   Farming   Masters  
    "Natural History".
  • I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

    Kings   Noble   Earth  
    George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.25
  • There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

    FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Apr 07, 2015
  • There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

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

    Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.798, Best Books on
  • Always drink upstream from the herd.

    "The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers". "Friars Club Bible of Jokes, Pokes, Roasts, and Toasts". Book by Nina Colman, p. 316, 2001.
  • There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

    Life   Cheating   Real  
    Benjamin Franklin (1819). “Memoirs of the life and writings of B.F. ...”, p.60
  • By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.

    Henry David Thoreau, Michael McCurdy, Terry Tempest Williams (2010). “Walden”, p.88, Shambhala Publications
  • Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

    Flower   Fall   Power  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.131, tredition
  • There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

    Light   Wife   Toil  
    1899 Boy Life on the Prairie,'Melons and Early Frost'.
  • No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.

    Jobs   Hate   Work  
  • I 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.

    Country   Real   Animal  
    George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Peters (1847). “Letters on Agriculture from His Excellency, George Washington, President of the United States, to Arthur Young, Esq., F.R.S., and Sir John Sinclair, Bart., M.P.: With Statistical Tables and Remarks, by Thomas Jefferson, Richard Peters, and Other Gentlemen, on the Economy and Management of Farms in the United States”, p.12
  • Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state

    Country   Business   Men  
  • Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.

    Time   Worry   Growing  
  • He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

    Men   Mind   World  
    1900 The Voice of the People, bk.2, ch.4.
  • The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

    Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company
  • Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.

    Cheating   Car   Farming  
    P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.248, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.

    Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside
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