This collection holds 514 agriculture quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Gilbert K. Chesterton, Ed Mcmahon and Wendell Berry.

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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power ... - Gilbert K. Chesterton

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Agriculture is the new golf

Eating is an agricultural act.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.

Most things, except agriculture, can wait

The divine chemistry works in the subsoil.

We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm.

Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.

The farmers are the founders of civilization.

I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

Sustainability is here to stay or we may not be

To be economical agriculture must be ecological.

I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas.

Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.

Agriculture drives most people crazy. It keeps me sane.

Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

Steak on the plate went up. Steak on the hoof went down.

Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.

We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world.

Agriculture and intercultural dialogue: our common heritage.

In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection.

I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.

I wish for recycling to become a major industrial agriculture.

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

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.

Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.

I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

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

If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right.

Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm.

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.

What's the logic of investing millions in agriculture if it will not pay off?

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution.

Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.

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

In agriculture, whatever you plan and execute takes 2-3 years to have an impact.

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

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