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1

George Washington

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"Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man."

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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3

Aldo Leopold

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"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."

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Brenda Schoepp

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"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."

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5

B. C. Forbes

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"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn."

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6

Daniel Webster

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

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7

John Greenleaf Whittier

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"Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard!

Heap high the golden corn!

No richer gift has Autumn poured

From out her lavish horn!"

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8

Thomas Jefferson

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

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9

Will Rogers

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"The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer."

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10

E. B. White

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

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11

John F. Kennedy

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"The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways."

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12

Masanobu Fukuoka

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"The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings."

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13

Pliny the Elder

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"The master's eye is the best fertilizer."

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14

Wendell Berry

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"We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist."

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15

Proverbs 20:4

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"Those too lazy to plow in the right season will have no food at the harvest."

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16

Edgar Watson Howe

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"Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start."

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17

Unknown

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"Bailing twine turns every farmer into MacGyver."

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18

Kelsey Timmerman

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"Farming isn't something that can be taught. Each plant tells its own story that has to be read repeatedly."

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19

Douglas Jerrold

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

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20

Henri Alain

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"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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