Fields Quote by John Steinbeck

The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities,…

— Edward Abbey

Nature made the fields and man the cities.

— Marcus Terentius Varro

Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.

— John Burnham Schwartz

“During the summers they traveled widely through the forests, killing men for booty.”

— Jesse L. Byock

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more…

— Henry David Thoreau

“A street turned off at right angles, descending, and became a dirt road. On either hand the land dropped more sharply; a broad flat…

— William Faulkner

“In April, Bradford had decided that each household should be assigned its own plot to cultivate, with the understanding that each family kept whatever…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“From all over the planet they came…. They came in companies and alone, with money and without, knowing and naïve. They tore themselves from…

— H.W. Brands

“Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with lives generally more difficult and less satisfying than those…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and wandering shepherd,…

— Edward Everett

“Peasant families were close-knit. However, as the Black Death swept through village after village, it became difficult for young peasants to find spouses. The…

— Patricia D. Netzley

Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as other work,…

— Peter Buffett