Cultivation Quote by Isaac Barrow

The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a division, and for that…

— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division…

— Ludwig von Mises

If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive,…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there…

— Anonymous

When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn out, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the…

— Horace Mann

Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the…

— James Mill

Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom consume the…

— Adam Smith

Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted…

— Julius Sterling Morton

“The produce of the soil maintains at all times nearly that number of inhabitants which it is capable of maintaining. The rich only select…

— Adam Smith

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly…

— Chogyam Trungpa