Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author
Look up! the wide extended plain Is billowy with its ripened grain, And on the summer winds are rolled Its waves of emerald and gold.
William Henry Burleigh Topic: Agriculture
The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
Cicero Topic: Agriculture
He allows very readily, that the eyes and footsteps of the master are things most salutary to the land.
Lucinus Junius Topic: Agriculture
Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield: Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team a-field! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
Thomas Gray Topic: Agriculture
Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.
Horace Topic: Agriculture
Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your powers!
Richard Hengist Horne Topic: Agriculture
The life of the husbandman,--a life led by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.
Douglas Jerrold Topic: Agriculture
When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.
John Stuart Mill Topic: Agriculture
Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.
John Milton Topic: Agriculture
Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
Alexander Pope Topic: Agriculture
Our rural ancestors with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulg'd the day that hous'd their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
Alexander Pope Topic: Agriculture
And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together."
Jonathan Swift Topic: Agriculture
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