60 Best Agriculture Quotes That Are Worth Reading

Thomas Jefferson Agriculture Quotes

Let's learn some great things about agriculture said the former president. Here are some powerful Thomas Jefferson agriculture quotes to read.

• "Agriculture is our wisest pursuit because it will, in the end, contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness."-Thomas Jefferson

• "Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state".-Thomas Jefferson

• "The small landholders are the most precious part of a state."-Thomas Jefferson

• “I am never satiated with rambling through the fields and farms, examining the culture and cultivators, with a degree of curiosity which makes some take me to be a fool, and others to be much wiser than I am."-Thomas Jefferson

• “Agriculture manufactures, commerce and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.”— Thomas Jefferson

• “…cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. they are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, & they are tied to their country & wedded to its liberty & interests by the most lasting bands.”-Thomas Jefferson

• “Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.”-Thomas Jefferson

• “The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor & live on.”-Thomas Jefferson

Quotes About Farming and Agriculture

You will also find a collection of wise agriculture quotes below. Hope these agriculture quotes give you a newfound respect for the harvest.

• “Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the cornfield.” — President Dwight D. Eisenhower

•  “When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”― Masanobu Fukuoka

• “Farming isn’t a battle against nature, but a partnership with it. It is respecting the basics of nature in action and ensuring that they continue.”— Jeff Koehler

• “There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.”— Bill Bryson

• “A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handyman with a sense of humus.”— E. B. White

• “No race can prosper until it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.” — Booker T. Washington

• “Farming is a profession of hope.” — Brett Brian

• “Those too lazy to plow in the right season will have no food at the harvest.” — Proverbs 20:4

• “The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.” — Will Rogers

•  “When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.” —  Daniel Webster.

• “When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.” — Daniel Webster

• “I would rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.” — George Washington

• “I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.”— Andy Warhol

• “The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.” — John F. Kennedy

• “The story of family farming underscores a legacy of sustainability.” — Amanda Zaluckyj, The Farmer’s Daughter the USA

• "Blessed be agriculture! If one does not have too much of it." - Charles Dudley Warner 

• "Agriculture is the keystone of our economic structure. The wealth, welfare, prosperity and even the future freedom of this nation are based upon the soil." - Louis Bromfield 

• “It was farmers that took all that land and made it America...It was farmers that went over the mountains, and cleared the land, and settled it, and farmed it, and hung onto their land.”― Laura Ingalls Wilder

• “To be a farmer is to be a student forever, for each day brings something new.”― John Connell

• “In olden times there were warriors, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants. Agriculture was said to be closer to the source of things than trade or manufacturing, and the farmer was said to be “the cupbearer of the gods.”  He was always able to get by somehow or other and have enough to eat.”― Masanobu Fukuoka

• “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.”— Paul Chatfield

• “It feels good at the end of the day to know you made a product that other people are going to enjoy.”— Jericho Sanchez

• “Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.”— Edgar Watson Howe

Famous Agriculture Quotes

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Agriculture contributes to primary needs for our life. Take a moment to appreciate the people behind agriculture, the farmers for all their hard work and dedication to farm life.

We share with you famous agriculture quotes that will make you respect farmers and give you a new perspective about agriculture.

• “Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man.”― George Washington

• “And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer, and landlord.”— John F. Kennedy

•  “Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deep into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.”— Bernard Baruch

• “For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero

• “The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.”— John F. Kennedy

•  “I would rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.”— George Washington

• “A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income.”— John F. Kennedy.

• “Agriculture was the first occupation of man, and as it embraces the whole earth, it is the foundation of all other industries.”— Edward W. Stewart

•  “My grandfather used to say that once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, and a preacher. But every day, three times a day, you need a farmer.”— Brenda Schoepp

• “Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.”  —  Henri Alain Liogier.

• "Agricultural growth is a proven driver of poverty reduction. When agriculture stimulates growth … the growth is twice as effective in reducing poverty as growth based in other sectors."– Giza Mdoe

Short Agriculture Quotes

Should you need some short agriculture quotes to be posted on social media status, here we've got you covered with short words and sayings about farming and agriculture.

Hope you enjoy them!

• “A farmer is always going to be rich next year.”— Philemon.

• “Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all.” — John Greenleaf Whittier

• "The farmers are the founders of civilization and prosperity." - Daniel Webster 

• “The story of family farming underscores a legacy of sustainability.” — Amanda Zaluckyj

• “The master’s eye is the best fertilizer.”― Pliny the Elder

• “The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer." — Will Rogers

• "Agriculture is a fundamental source of national prosperity." - J. J. MAPES 

• "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."— Mahatma Gandhi

• "Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest."-Douglas Jerrold

• "Grain is the currency of currencies." - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 

• "Command large fields but cultivate small ones." - Virgil 

• "A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people." - Wendell Berry 

• "Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest."-Douglas Jerrold

• "If farm ecology and economics go wrong, nothing else will go right in agriculture." - M. S. Swaminathan 

• "There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song" - Masanobu Fukuoka 

• "Agriculture is at the core of the state." - Dave Cook 

• "A farmer is always going to be rich next year." - Philemon 

• "Command large fields but cultivate small ones." - Virgil 

• "No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer." - S.J. Perelman