Farmer Quote by Tracy Winegar

“For him I was like the land, something to care for...well, he loved to make things grow. But he resembled the land more than…

— Bruce-Novoa

“Growth of the soil was something different, a thing to be procured at any cost; the only source, the origin of all. A dull…

— Knut Hamsun

“He was grateful, then, for his friends, and for how relatively little they had mined from him, how they had left him to himself,…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“He raged at his farm, forced it, added to it, drilled and trimmed, and his boundaries extended. He took no rest, no recreation, and…

— John Steinbeck

“Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“...his genius, during his earlier manhood, was of that exclusively agricultural character which applies itself to the cultivation of wild oats.”

— Anonymous

“He knew no future then, no kind of life except the life he led. He fled the cave-bear over the rocks full of iron…

— H.G. Wells

“She was like a farmer who keeps horses in order to haul away the manure that they generate.”

— Paula Marantz Cohen

“We are all great alchemists. We distil ourselves over and over again.”

— Deborah Valentine

“He was an orphan, taken on by the alchemist to be little better than a slave. Will had never, not once, had anywhere to…

— Lauren Oliver

“It’s that which is between the gardener and his bit of soil that makes a garden.”

— Robin Hobb

“Often-times, grass was more useful than gold. Man was more desirable than a beast. Chance was more seductive than knowledge, and eternal life was…

— Amy Harmon