Farming And Farmers Quotes - Page 2

• Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Flower, Garden, Tree

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.249

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• On a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye.

  Pliny the Elder

  Eye, Farming, Masters

  "Natural History".

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• With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

  Bertrand Russell

  Agriculture, Long, Machines

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.57, W. W. Norton & Company

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• By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Selfishness, Landscape

  Henry David Thoreau, Michael McCurdy, Terry Tempest Williams (2010). “Walden”, p.88, Shambhala Publications

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• Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cheating, Car, Farming

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.248, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.

  George Crabbe

  Complaining, Gains, Farming

  'The Parish Register' (1807 pt. 1, l. 273

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