1. Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
-Jerrold, A land of
Plenty
2. A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.
-Ovid
3. Praise a large domain, cultivate a small state.
-Vergil, Georgics
4. Blessed be agriculture! If one does not have too much of it.
-Charles Dudley
Warner, My Summer
in a Garden
5. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of the human civilization.
-Daniel Webster,
Remarks on
Agriculture
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