A green Christmas makes a fat churchyard.
Agriculture Quotes
Horn, corn, wool, and yarn! (Scottish toast)
You think farm buildings and broad acres a solid property: but its value is flowing like water. It requires as much watching as if you were decanting wine from a cask.
The farmer’s eye is the best fertilizer.
All is not butter that comes from the cow.
Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time;… drop a grain of our blessed gold (wheat) into the ground and lo! a mystery.
There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam’s profession. (Hamlet)
Hope sustains the farmer.
Husbandry has in our time been glorified in eloquence which for the most part is vain, endeavouring as it does, to prove a falsity – that the agricutural life is, in itself, favorable to gentle emotions, to sweet thoughtfulness, and to all the human virtues. Agriculture is one of the most exhausting forms of toil, […]
Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.
