1.Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
2.There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
3.If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.
4.Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can’t be like the farming techniques of yore.
5.That is one good thing about this wold… there are always sure to be more springs.
6.Flowers always make people better, happier, and more hopeful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul.
7.Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
8.What if you just did it your own way? No rules, no right or wrong, just what you think is beautiful?
9.So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.
10.Do what you love to do, and be around things that make you smile. The cows make me smile every day.
11.The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
12.A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop it would diversify its crops to suit the earth.
13.Agriculture depends on labor. You can’t produce crops if there is nobody to work on the farms.
14.Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you’ve got.
15.Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be… original in your work.
16.Agriculture is the noblest of all alchemy; for it turns earth, and even manure, into gold, conferring upon its cultivator the additional reward of health.
17.The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
18.Farming is a most senseless pursuit, a mere laboring in a circle. You sow that you may reap, and then you reap that you may sow. Nothing ever comes of it.
19.Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can’t hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.
20.Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.
21.For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture.
22.A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
23.It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
24.Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
25.To lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
26.I wonder if snow loves the trees and fields… It covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, Go to sleep, dealings, till the summer comes again.
27.It all just seemed so good the way we had it. Back before everything became automatic.
28.Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with less care at lower cost.
29.Agriculture would dry up. There wouldn’t be any agriculture. There wouldn’t be enough people to get the job done.
30.You get to sit down at the end of the day and you know that you got through it with your family.
31.It was such a pleasure to sink one’s hands into the warm earth, to feel at one’s fingertips the possibilities of the new season.
32.Organic farming has been shown to provide major benefits for wildlife and the wider environment. The best that can be said about genetically engineered crops is that they will now be monitored to see how much damage they cause.
33.The first fall of snow is not only an event but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, where is it to be found?
34.The first fall of snow is not only an event but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, where is it to be found?