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Agriculture Quotes

"I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun."

"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."

"We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us."

"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 "

"What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes."

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

"The great advances of civilization whether in architecture or painting in science or literature in industry or agriculture have never come from centralized government"

"In the good years, make sure you're good to the land"

"Family farmers are indistinguishable from family businesses in every rural community from Iowa to Georgia"

"The land belongs to those who work it"

"For out of the old fields comes all this new corn"

"Wild oats, properly speaking, are a most invaluable crop"

"History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets"

"We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel"