Inspirational agriculture quotes will challenge the way you think, and make your life worth living.
Famous Agriculture Quotes
Agriculture, manufactures, commerce and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise. – Thomas Jefferson
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. – Daniel Webster
The farmer works the soil, The agriculturist works the farmer. – Eugene F. Ware
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. – E.B. White
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. – Douglas Jerrold
You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures, since the productions of nature are the materials of art. – Edward Gibbon
he 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
It is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without a proper respect for the soil. – Peter Maurin
Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals & happiness. – Thomas Jefferson
Agriculture was the first occupation of man, and as it embraces the whole earth, it is the foundation of all other industries. – Edward W. Stewart
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer. – Will Rogers
Agriculture’s not insulated from having a percentage of people who might be really good old graziers, but they’re no good as business people. – Barry O’Sullivan
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. – Masanobu Fukuoka
Agriculture has become essential to life; the forest, the lake, and the ocean cannot sustain the increasing family of man; population declines with a declining cultivation, and nations have ceased to be with the extinction of their agriculture. – Elias Hasket Derby
The master’s eye is the best fertilizer. – Pliny the Elder
Agriculture is the Archimedean lever which, though it does not move a world, tends to fill it with plenty, with moral health, and human happiness. – J. Buel
The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star. – Wes Jackson
We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist. – Wendell Berry
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
Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man. – George Washington
Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries. – Allan Savory
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind. – Joseph Joubert
Eating is an agricultural act. – Wendell Berry
If farm ecology and economics go wrong, nothing else will go right in agriculture. – M. S. Swaminathan
When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. – Masanobu Fukuoka
Agriculture is the great art of directing and aiding nature in the performance of those functions which were designed by Providence for the comfort and subsistence of man. – Lewis Cass
All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world. – Victor Hugo
Cultivators are the most valuable citizens…they are tied to their country. – Thomas Jefferson
Earthworms will dance – Joel Salatin
There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song – Masanobu Fukuoka
An agricultural life is one eminently calculated for human happiness and human virtue. – C. L. Allen
Agriculture is a fundamental source of national prosperity. – J. J. Mapes
A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection. – Elias Hasket Derby
Agriculture is at the core of the state. – Dave Cook
Agriculture is the process of turning eco-systems into people. – Toby Hemenway
A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people. – Wendell Berry
Agriculture for an honorable and high-minded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living. – Xenophon
A farmer is always going to be rich next year. – Philemon
If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right in the country. – M. S. Swaminathan
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. – Samuel Johnson
Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness. – Thomas Jefferson
To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit. – Sam Farr
Someday men will learn to irrigate and spread fertilizer instead of praying for fertility. – Warren Eyster
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants. – P. J. O’Rourke
Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man – George Washington
A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land. – Wendell Berry
