“ Since I was a boy - born into a farming family in Bonaire, GA - I've had agriculture running through my veins. Sonny Perdue
“ ...no matter how rhapsodic one waxes about the process of wresting edible plants and tamed animals from the sprawling vagaries of nature, there's a timeless, unwavering truth espoused by those who wor… James McWilliams
“ The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but… Robert Mugabe
“ Even though I hated doing farming and wanted to just get out of the village, I would work from 5 in the morning till 5 in the evening. Nawazuddin Siddiqui
“ Ask me about my childhood, and I will tell you to walk to the edge of the woods with a choir of crickets chirping from every direction, a hot, humid breeze brushing through your hair, your feet, bare… Brenda Sutton Rose
“ I could go to a dozen houses, scrape away the dirt, and find his footprints, but my own prints evaporated before I ever looked back. Brenda Sutton Rose
“ Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education. Alice Waters
“ Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests… Thomas Jefferson
“ Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God if He ever had a chosen people whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. Thomas Jefferson
“ 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. Joannes Stobaeus
“ The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place. David R. Brower
“ Only a very foolish person would think that specialized knowledge is important in everything apart from agriculture and farming Sunday Adelaja
“ The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That notion only made sense if you had a strong man willing to step up and get things done, and between D… Jeannette Walls
“ There's relief in not having to be outside. No gardening, no mowing the lawn, no tyranny of long daylight hours to fill with productive activity. We rip through summer, burning the hours and tearing u… Jerry Dennis
“ We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. Aldo Leopold
