31 Quotes About Agriculture

Agriculture has evolved over time from various tools and resources that allow us to live off the land. These quotes about agriculture highlight the happiness and fulfillment that is achieved by that that have passed on their land for generations to use it for achieving prosperity and the American dream.

“A farmer is always going to be rich next year.”

“A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection.”

“Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.”

“Agriculture for an honorable and high-minded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living.”

“Agriculture is a fundamental source of national prosperity.”

“Agriculture is at the core of the state.”

“Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.”

“Agriculture is the Archimedean lever which, though it does not move a world, tends to fill it with plenty, with moral health, and human happiness.”

“Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures, since the productions of nature are the materials of art.”

“Agriculture is the great art of directing and aiding nature in the performance of those functions which were designed by Providence for the comfort and subsistence of man.”

“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.”

“Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.”

“Agriculture is the process of turning eco-systems into people.”

“Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.”

“Agriculture was the first occupation of man, and as it embraces the whole earth, it is the foundation of all other industries.”

“Agriculture, manufactures, commerce and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.”

“An agricultural life is one eminently calculated for human happiness and human virtue.”

“Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.”

“Farming is not just a job, it’s a way of life.”

“I believe in the future of agriculture, with a faith born not of words but of deeds.”

“If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right in the country.”

“If farm ecology and economics go wrong, nothing else will go right in agriculture.”

“It is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without a proper respect for the soil.”

“No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”

“Some of us grew up playing with tractors, the lucky ones still do.”

“Someday men will learn to irrigate and spread fertilizer instead of praying for fertility.”

“The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star.”

“The farmer works the soil, The agriculturist works the farmer.”

“There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song”

“To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.”

“To most people, this is just dirt. To a farmer, it is potential.”

Agriculture is an industry that is constantly changing with new technologies being introduced to improve the process of farming.