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Farming
Farming in our rural communities
is not just an economic industry,
but a way of life.
Sue Kelly
There are only three things
that can kill a farmer: lightning,
rolling over in a tractor,
and old age.
Bill Bryson
The average age of a Kansas farmer is
58 1/2 years old, and in many communities
no young people are returning to farming
because no money can be made.
Jerry Moran
Farming looks mighty easy when
your plow is a pencil, and you're a
thousand miles from the corn field.
Dwight D Eisenhower
Farming with live animals is a 7
day a week, legal form of slavery.
George Segal
The first farmer was the first man.
All historic nobility rests on
the possession and use of land.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life on a farm is a school of
patience; you can't hurry the crops
or make an ox in two days.
Henri Alain
Sowing is not as
difficult as reaping.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The diligent farmer plants trees,
of which he himself will
never see the fruit.
Cicero
The land too poor for any other
crop, is best for raising men.
R Pocock
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
If you tickle the earth with a
hoe she laughs with a harvest.
Douglas William Jerrold
The farmer works the
soil. The agriculturalist
works the farmer.
Eugene F Ware
Bowed by the weight of centuries he
leans upon his hoe and gazes on the
ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and
on his back the burden of the world.
Edwin Markham
A farmer is always going
to be rich next year.
Philemon
No one hates his job
so heartily as a farmer.
H L Mencken
Farmers are philosophical.
They have learned that it is
less wearing to shrug than to
beat their breasts.
Ruth Stout
Farmers are respectable
and interesting to me in
proportion as they are poor.
Henry David Thoreau
I know of no pursuit in which more
real and important services can be
rendered to any country than by improving
its agriculture, its breed of useful
animals, and other branches
of a husbandman's cares.
George Washington
The first farmer was the first man.
All historic nobility rests on
the possession and use of land.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When tillage begins, other arts
follow. The farmers, therefore, are
the founders of human civilization.
Daniel Webster
Programs that pay farmers not to
farm often devastate rural areas. The
reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer
companies to tractor salesmen.
Dick Armey
A good farmer is nothing more
nor less than a handy man
with a sense of humus.
E B White
There are three easy ways of
losing money - racing is the
quickest, women the most pleasant,
and farming the most certain.
Lord Amherst
Give fools their gold, and knaves their
power; let fortune's bubbles rise and
fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower,
or plants a tree, is more than all.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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
