1. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.-Masanobu Fukuoka
2. It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.-Cato the Elder
3. 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
4. Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can’t hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.-Henri Alain
5. Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.-Daniel Webster
6. If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.-Samuel Johnson
7. Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.-Dwight D. Eisenhower
8. Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can’t be like the farming techniques of yore.-Homaro Cantu
9. 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
10. So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.-Daryl Hannah
11. Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.-George Segal
12. Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.-Samuel Johnson
13. Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living.-Xenophon
14. Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.-Thomas Jefferson
15. 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
16. 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
17. You can make a small fortune in farming-provided you start with a large one.-unknown
18. Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man.-George Washington
19. Farming is a profession of hope.-Brian Brett
20. 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.-Verlyn Klinkenborg
21. 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
22. Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.-Joseph Joubert
23. If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest.-Douglas Jerrold
24. It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.-David F. Houston
25. 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.-Prince Charles
26. The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.-Arthur Keith
27. Agriculture looks different today – our farmers are using GPS and you can monitor your irrigation systems over the Internet.-Debbie Stabenow
28. To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.-Sam Farr