The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you re a thousand miles from the corn field.

Remote though your farm may be, It's something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free.

It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.

Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.

There is life in the ground: it goes into the seeds; and it also, when it is stirred up, goes into the man who stirs it.

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.