Fall Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“A farm is just an accumulation of stories really. Same with people... "A farmer's footsteps are the best fertiliser," Dad used to say, which…

— John Marsden

On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.

— Willa Cather

As a farmer, man himself became closely attached to the landscape, firmly rooted to the soil that supported him. At times the soil seemed…

— Charles Kellogg

Traveler: God has been mighty good to your fields, Mr. Farmer. Farmer: You should have seen how he treated them when I wasn't around.

— Anonymous

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

— Mike Johanns

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

— O. Henry

Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have to say that it was working with my grandpa, who grew up on a farm in Mountain Home, Idaho, that had the…

— John Bytheway

“essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“the Agricultural Revolution was a terrible catastrophe.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The average farmer worked harder than the average forager, and got a worse diet in return. The Agricultural Revolution was history’s biggest fraud.2”

— Yuval Noah Harari

The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson