Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it’s liberty and interests by the most lasting bands. As long therefore as they can find employment in this line, I would not convert them […]
Agriculture Quotes
What a man needs in gardening is a cast iron back, with a hinge in it.
Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
The life of a Husbandman of all others is the most delectable. It is honorable. It is amusing, and, with judicious management, it is profitable.
Earth is here (Australia) so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.
There are three ways a man can be ruined: women, gambling, and farming. My father chose the most boring.
Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living.
