Agriculture Quote by Alexander Pope

In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we…

— Henry David Thoreau

Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.

— Margaret Sanger

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is…

— John Stuart Mill

Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.

— Barbara Johnson

“They had grown up on shame; it was the nutrient of their soil.”

— Elizabeth Strout

Civilization has its roots in the soil.

— Charles Kellogg

It's as if the whole notion of growing soil is something only lunatics would think about. But why not grow soil? Does anything make…

— Joel Salatin

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

— Wendell Berry

Many of us refuse to grow where we are put; consequently, we take root nowhere.

— Oswald Chambers

The soil is the gift of God to the living.

— Thomas Jefferson

Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.

— Margaret Fuller

There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can…

— Henry David Thoreau