{"id":7888,"date":"2020-12-01T07:34:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T07:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farmandanimals.com\/?p=7888"},"modified":"2020-12-02T14:56:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T14:56:49","slug":"life-on-the-farm-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farmandanimals.com\/life-on-the-farm-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"31 Life On The Farm Quotes That Define The Essential Nature Of Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Farmers are underappreciated. Most people in modern society take it for granted that there will always be plenty of fresh produce, milk and dairy products and meats available at the local grocery, but it wouldn\u2019t be there if it weren\u2019t for farmers. The fact of the matter is\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cFarming is a matter of dirt and dung. It is not the kind of thing we look to (as a way of finding) the meaning of human life. It is too ordinary, too inescapably a part of life to be interesting. We know that it has to be done, but see no reason to pay much attention to it. But it is just because farming is inescapably a part of human life that it may provide a clue to what is most basically human, and so a clue to our place within the cosmos.\u201d \u2013 Stephanie Nelson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We all need to either have or be farmers if we wish to survive and thrive. Here we present a collection of observations, resources and farming quotes that explain exactly why that is. Here are my favorite life on the farm<\/a> quotes.<\/p>\n

Farming Was The Start Of Civilization<\/h2>\n

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\u201cThe discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.\u201d \u2013 Arthur Keith<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Recent archaeological studies have found that farming activities may have begun as long as 23,000 years ago<\/a>. The ability to cultivate crops and domesticate livestock allowed early humans to stop roaming about seeking food and exposing themselves to dangers. Instead, they could stay in one place, set down roots and establish a safe, secure and stable environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgriculture was the first occupation of man, and as it embraces the whole earth, it is the foundation of all other industries.\u201d \u2013 Edward W. Stewart<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.\u201d \u2013 Daniel Webster<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Farming Is An Honorable Occupation<\/h2>\n

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\u201cMy grandfather used to say that once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman and a preacher, but every day, three times a day, you need a farmer.\u201d \u2013 Brenda Schoepp<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Farming is a career that underpins the development and stewardship of land, water and humanity for generations to come<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will, in the end, contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.\u201d \u2013 Thomas Jefferson<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.\u201d \u2013 Masanobu Fukuoka<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Farming Brings Meaning To Life<\/h2>\n

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\u201cI like farming. It is a good life. After more than 30 years of it, I still would rather farm than do anything else.\u201d — Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard, 1944<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many farmers feel that farming is more than a career. It is a calling. Lifelong farmers live and work following a set of principles commonly known as natural law. These are typically similar to the self-evident truths that are the basis of the preamble to the US Constitution, that all humans are right to strive for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These are the qualities that give life meaning.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo what you love to do, and be around things that make you smile. The cows make me smile every day.\u201d \u2013 David Jackson<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels good at the end of the day to know you made a product that other people are going to enjoy.\u201d \u2013 Jericho Sanchez<\/p>\n

\u201cThe farm is part of me.\u201d \u2013 Erich Wehrenberg<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Farming Is Creative<\/h2>\n

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\u201cWe have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.\u201d \u2013 Wendell Berry<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To be a successful farmer, you must be resourceful, innovative and creative. You must be able to analyze unexpected situations and create positive solutions to problems using the resources you have at hand. These skills are the very heart and soul of creativity.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo race can prosper until it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.\u201d \u2013 Booker T. Washington<\/p>\n

\u201cAgriculture is the noblest of all alchemy; for it turns earth, and even manure, into gold, conferring upon its cultivator the additional reward of health.\u201d \u2013 Paul Chatfield<\/p>\n

\u201cAgriculture is the foundation of manufactures, since the productions of nature are the materials of art.\u201d \u2013 Edward Gibbon<\/p>\n

\u201cI think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.\u201d \u2013 Andy Warhol<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Farming Is A Partnership With Nature<\/h2>\n

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\u201cIf you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest.\u201d \u2013 Douglas Jerrold<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wise farming practices support a healthy natural world, which in turn, supports successful farming.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you own a farm, it’s not like owning alphabet stocks. It’s a long-term play. We’ve realized if you’re going to keep in it, you’ve got to treat soil health, conservation and your environment.\u201d \u2013 Joe Hickman Black Horse Flag Farm, Maryland<\/p>\n

\u201cThe story of family farming underscores a legacy of sustainability.\u201d \u2013 Amanda Zaluckyj<\/p>\n

\u201cFactory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with less care at lower cost.\u201d \u2013 Matthew Scully<\/p>\n

\u201cFarming isn\u2019t a battle against nature, but a partnership with it. It is respecting the basics of nature in action and ensuring that they continue.\u201d \u2013 Jeff Koehler<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Farming Is The Backbone Of Civilization<\/h2>\n

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\u201cIt is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without a proper respect for the soil.\u201d \u2013 Peter Maurin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Successful agriculture is essential to human survival. Recently, archaeologists have found evidence that time-and-again civilizations have fallen when the needs and challenges of the agricultural sector of society have been neglected and\/or when farming practices have become destructive and exploitative.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgriculture has become essential to life; the forest, the lake, and the ocean cannot sustain the increasing family of man; population declines with a declining cultivation, and nations have ceased to be with the extinction of their agriculture.\u201d \u2013 Elias Hasket Derby<\/p>\n

\u201cAgriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.\u201d \u2013 Samuel Johnson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Farming Builds Community<\/h2>\n

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\u201cStrong communities are built around local, real food. Food we trust to nourish our bodies, the farmer and planet.\u201d \u2013 Kimbal Musk<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shared neighborhood gardens have always been a thing, and today more and more people are choosing to grow their own food and\/or frequent their local farmers\u2019 market rather than purchasing high-mileage produce, dairy products and meats from large grocery stores.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do think that there is a big difference between family farms and agri-business, and one of the distressing things that I think has occurred is with consolidation of farm lands. You\u2019ve seen large agri-businesses benefit from enormous profits from existing farm programs, and I think we should be focusing most of those programs on those family farmers.\u201d \u2013 President Barack Obama<\/p>\n

\u201cAgriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.\u201d \u2013 Bernard Baruch<\/p>\n

\u201cI love the idea of farm to table and farmer\u2019s markets. I enjoy a meal more if I know I\u2019m eating something that\u2019s good quality and good for me.\u201d \u2013 Haylie Duff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Farming Is A Lifelong Challenge<\/h2>\n

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\u201cThe farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn\u2019t still be a farmer.\u201d \u2013 Will Rogers<\/p>\n

\u201cA farm is a manipulative creature. There is no such thing as finished. Work comes in a stream and has no end. There are only the things that must be done now and things that can be done later. The threat the farm has got on you, the one that keeps you running from can until can\u2019t is this: do it now, or some living thing will wilt or suffer or die. Its blackmail, really.\u201d \u2013 Kristin Kimball<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite the long work hours<\/a>, many challenges and hardships of farming, truly committed farmers keep at it for life – often for generations. It takes a proprietary combination of hardheadedness, creativity, devotion and optimism to succeed at this difficult, important, rewarding occupation.<\/p>\n

\u201cFarming is a profession of hope.\u201d \u2013 Brett Brian<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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