20 Quotes That Celebrate Life on the Farm
An aggressive love-fest for all-things agricultural!
When things get hectic, sometimes we just need some happy quotes to get us inspired and help us make it through the day, month, or year. Other times, when things seem insurmountable, all we want is to get outside and head for the hills (and hay). Even if you've never experienced living or working on a farm, hearing someone wax poetic about country life can sure make you want to give it a try.
Here, we’ve rounded up some farm quotes that will make you appreciate farm life. We've got quirky quotes about farming to quotes about how much we need farming. After you cruise through, you may want to get your own plot of land or want to buy some cows of your own. In any case, it can't hurt to practice some gratitude and express some heartfelt thanks to folks at next week's farmers market.
George Washington
"Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."
Aldo Leopold
"There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace."
Brenda Schoepp
"My grandfather used to say that once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, and a preacher. But every day, three times a day, you need a farmer."
B. C. Forbes
"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn."
Daniel Webster
"When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization."
John Greenleaf Whittier
"Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard!
Heap high the golden corn!
No richer gift has Autumn poured
From out her lavish horn!"
Thomas Jefferson
"Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals & happiness."
Will Rogers
"The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer."
E. B. White
"A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus."
John F. Kennedy
"The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways."
Masanobu Fukuoka
"The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings."
Pliny the Elder
"The master's eye is the best fertilizer."
Wendell Berry
"We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist."
Proverbs 20:4
"Those too lazy to plow in the right season will have no food at the harvest."
Edgar Watson Howe
"Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start."
Unknown
"Bailing twine turns every farmer into MacGyver."
Kelsey Timmerman
"Farming isn't something that can be taught. Each plant tells its own story that has to be read repeatedly."
Douglas Jerrold
"Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest."
Henri Alain
"Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days."
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