1. “Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.” ― Edgar Watson Howe
2. “Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.” ― Joseph Joubert
3. “It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.” ― B. C. Forbes
4. “A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.” ― E. B. White
5. “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
6. “Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.” ― Thomas Jefferson
7. “It is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without a proper respect for the soil.” ― Peter Maurin
8. “No race can prosper until it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.” ― Booker T. Washington
9. “When I help a farmer, I don’t differentiate between them based on their region, as farmers have no borders. I want to live like a world citizen and react like a human being.” ― Prakash Raj
10. “There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.” ― Bill Bryson
11. “Do what you love to do, and be around things that make you smile. The cows make me smile every day.” ― David Jackson
12. “Farming is a profession of hope.” ― Brett Brian
13. “If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer’s crop, who are we to say it shouldn’t rain?” – Tom Barrett
14. “I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.” ― Andy Warhol
15. “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 deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.” ― Bernard Baruch
16. “You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
17. “It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.” ― Cato the Elder
18. “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
19. “Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.” ― Samuel Johnson
20. “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
21. “The farm is part of me.” ― Erich Wehrenberg
22. “The story of family farming underscores a legacy of sustainability.” ― Amanda Zaluckyj
23. “Whether it’s on the tractor or in the pasture with the cows, I just love being able to take my kids to work when I need to.” ― Will Collier
24. “Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can’t hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.” ― Henri Alain
25. “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.” ― Matthew Scully
26. “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
27. “The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.” ― Will Rogers
28. “Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures, since the productions of nature are the materials of art.” ― Edward Gibbon
29. “Agriculture looks different today – our farmers are using GPS and you can monitor your irrigation systems over the Internet.” ― Debbie Stabenow
30. “Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.” ― Joseph Joubert
31. “I would rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.” ― George Washington
32. “When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.” ― Daniel Webster
33. “To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.” ― Sam Farr
