Age Quote by Louis Agassiz

The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the…

— Louis Agassiz

The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact…

— Charles Darwin

For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living…

— Kenneth R. Miller

“We say that the plow made civilization but for that matter, so did manure.”

— Benjamin Lichtenberg

Man is sitting disconsolate on an anthill one morning. God asks him what the matter is and man replies that the soil is too…

— Chinua Achebe

“Tool lists from the fourteenth century indicate that pitchforks, spades, axes, plows, and harrows, which have teeth to break up soil, were widely used.…

— Patricia D. Netzley

“The richest harvest comes from best-tilled soil.”

— James Rollins

Two hundred years ago, we were all busy farming and we all had a role to play. The home was a unit of production.…

— Peter Buffett

No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower…

— Ellsworth Huntington

Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging…

— Anonymous

“Behind the harrows, the long seeders—twelve curved iron penes erected in the foundry, orgasms set by gears, raping methodically, raping without passion. The driver…

— John Steinbeck