A green Christmas makes a fat churchyard.
Agriculture Quotes
Horn, corn, wool, and yarn! (Scottish toast)
We may talk as we please of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles in fields of d’or or d’argent, but if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in the field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.
It’s the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we’re paying somebody not to.
Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let not your hands be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well. (Ecclesiastes 11:6)
Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.
All pre-industrial societies were predominantly rural. The Industrial Revolution vastly increased the size of cities and the proportion of the population that lives in them, and modern agricultural technology has made it possible for the Earth to support a far denser population than it ever did before.
Man has only a thin layer of soil between himself and starvation.
Nobody can discuss agriculture so learnedly as a farmer who hasn’t paid the interest on his mortgage for eight years.
The Golden Age of the small farmer is over. He can barely get along. He is in debt to the cattle-dealer, the land speculator, the usuerer. Mortgages ruin whole communities, even more than taxes.
