Drawing Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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

A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

— Bharati Mukherjee

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

— E. B. White

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than # agriculture

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Most peasant farmers and herders, who constitute the great majority of the world's actual food producers, aren't necessarily better off than hunter-gatherers. Time budget…

— Jared Diamond

The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a certain work;…

— Henry David Thoreau

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

— Henry Ward Beecher

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and…

— Antoine Lavoisier

Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore…

— Karl Marx

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater part of his life in obtaininggross…

— Henry David Thoreau

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