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Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm. — Jill Clayburgh
It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest. — Douglas Wilson
A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A root, a stem, a leaf, some means of capturing sunlight and air and making food - in sum, a plant. The green substance of… — Hal Borland
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind. — Joseph Joubert
Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it. — Charles Dudley Warner
Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs… — Prince Charles
Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving… — Alexander Pope
If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science. — Samuel Johnson
It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the… — Wendell Berry
Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. — Thomas Jefferson
Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will… — Philemon
Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely, mathematics for land… — Frederick Seitz
In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us to a future… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the cloud, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it. — Chief Seattle
Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops, and go right… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you eat, you are involved in agriculture. — Wendell Berry
To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit. — Sam Farr
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry… — Wendell Berry
A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people. — Wendell Berry
I am persuaded to think that any climate change is bad because of the investments and adaptations that have been made by human beings and… — Fred Singer
Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can't honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with their hands, building… — Van Jones

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