Harvesting Wisdom: A Collection of Inspiring Farmer Quotes

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

- Thomas Jefferson

""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

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

- B. C. Forbes

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

- George Washington

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

- Daniel Webster

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

- George Washington

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Masanobu Fukuoka

""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

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

- Wendell Berry

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

- Proverbs 20:4

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

- Henri Alain

""Strong communities are built around local, real food. Food we trust to nourish our bodies, the farmer and planet.""

- Kimbal Musk

""If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?""

- Tom Barrett

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

- Douglas Jerrold

""I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.""

- Miguel Indurain

""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

""I come from the family of farmers. I am a son of a farmer.""

- Pankaj Tripathi

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

- Amanda Zaluckyj

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

- Pliny the Elder

""If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.""

- Walter Scott

"There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise."

- Robert Green Ingersoll

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"Soil is a living ecosystem, and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil."

- Howard Warren Buffett

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

- George Washington

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

- Will Rogers

"The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere."

- Jim Hightower

"I may not be a polished politician, but as a lifelong farmer, I know that most problems can be solved with a little common sense."

- Stephen Fincher

"I look at myself like a farmer, harvesting my wares and taking them to the market, and then I go back and do it again."

- Jeremy Scott

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

- E. B. White

"Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast."

- Luke Bryan

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

- Wendell Berry

"I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family."

- Bjork

"I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly."

- Lawrence Welk

"If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings."

- Robert Patterson

""I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.""

- Lawrence Welk

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

- Kelsey Timmerman

""I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person.""

- Elizabeth Berg

""Today, somewhere in America, more foreclosures. More auctions. Another farmer plots his own death. And another. There is an art to making your death by combine look like an accident.""

- Carolyn Chute

""If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.""

- Robert Patterson

""I wanted to be a farmer; actually, I wanted to be a horse-breeder. And I had the stallions... but then I heard Little Richard, and that was it.""

- Lemmy

"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."

- Bill Bryson

"The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws."

- Andrew Jackson

""In any food crisis, it is the top of the food chain that suffers the most. In the case of farmer's distress, the top of food chain is us - the end consumer.""

- Prashant Bhushan

""I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.""

- Willie Nelson

""Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably.""

- Gerard Way

"Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall."

- Saint Basil

"I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person."

- Elizabeth Berg

"I was a farmer, a villager, and I was born to be such."

"I thought I was gonna be a farmer."

"When they asked us what we wanted to be when we grow up, in kindergarten, I always said I wanted to be a farmer."

"I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy."

"Farming isn’t for everyone, but hay it’s in my jeans."

""Bailing twine turns every farmer into MacGyver.""

"I learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music."