Agriculture Quotes

"If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture." "I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun." "We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us." "What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes." "We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel" "The great advances of civilization whether in architecture or painting in science or literature in industry or agriculture have never come from centralized government" "Wild oats, properly speaking, are a most invaluable crop" "America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population agriculture and the arts " "Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field" "History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets" "Family farmers are indistinguishable from family businesses in every rural community from Iowa to Georgia" "In the good years, make sure you're good to the land" "The land belongs to those who work it" "For out of the old fields comes all this new corn"