44 Inspirational Agriculture Quotes to Nourish Your Soul

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

- M. S. Swaminathan

"No race can prosper until it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"Farming is a profession of hope."

- Brett Brian

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

- Will Rogers Jr.

"Sustainable agriculture is not just about growing crops, it's about caring for the soil, the water, the air, and all the living things that depend on them."

- Vandana Shiva

"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."

- Brenda Schoepp

"Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy."

- Allan Savory

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

- David R. Brower

"Agriculture is the backbone of the livelihood security system of nearly 700 million people in the country and we need to build our food security on the foundation of home grown food."

- M. S. Swaminathan

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Daniel Webster

"The story of family farming underscores a legacy of sustainability."

- Amanda Zaluckyj

"The health of our planet depends on the health of its ecosystems, and sustainable agriculture is key to maintaining that health."

- Jules Pretty

"The goal of sustainable agriculture should be to regenerate the soil and the ecosystem, not just to maintain them."

- Joel Salatin

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

- George Washington

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

- B. C. Forbes

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

- Masanobu Fukuoka

"Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days."

- Henri Alain

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

- Sam Farr

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

- Samuel Johnson

"Agriculture can trigger job-led economic growth, provided it becomes intellectually satisfying and economically rewarding."

- M. S. Swaminathan

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

- Proverbs 20:4

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

- George Washington

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

- John F. Kennedy

"Sustainability is not just about conserving the earth's resources; it's about preserving the very essence of life on this planet."

- David Suzuki

"We must plant the seeds of change, and nurture them daily through our actions and choices."

- Kari Martinez

"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."

- Aldo Leopold

"Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn!"

- John Greenleaf Whittier

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

- Wendell Berry

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

- Kelsey Timmerman

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

- Douglas Jerrold

"I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy."

- John Salazar

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

- Arthur Keith

"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it."

- Robert Swan

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

- E. B. White

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

- Edgar Watson Howe

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

- Pliny the Elder

"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."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."

- Milton Friedman

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

- Masanobu Fukuoka

"Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology."

- Edward Thorndike

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

- Alfred Nobel