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1George Washington

"Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man."
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2Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."
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3Aldo 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."
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4Brenda 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."
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5B. C. Forbes
"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn."
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6Daniel Webster
"When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization."
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7John 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!"
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8Thomas Jefferson
"Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals & happiness."
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9Will Rogers
"The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer."
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10E. B. White
"A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus."
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11John 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."
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12Masanobu Fukuoka
"The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings."
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13Pliny the Elder
"The master's eye is the best fertilizer."
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14Wendell Berry
"We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist."
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15Proverbs 20:4
"Those too lazy to plow in the right season will have no food at the harvest."
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16Edgar Watson Howe
"Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start."
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17Unknown
"Bailing twine turns every farmer into MacGyver."
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18Kelsey Timmerman
"Farming isn't something that can be taught. Each plant tells its own story that has to be read repeatedly."
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19Douglas Jerrold
"Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest."
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20Henri 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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