In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
Vandana Shiva
Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.
Irene Rosenfeld
Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man
George Washington
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
If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.
Wendell Berry
Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.
Norman Borlaug
For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than # agriculture
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
Alexander Pope
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
Samuel Johnson
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
Masanobu Fukuoka
Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.
Thomas Jefferson