Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

The corn is not choked by the weeds but by the negligence of the farmer.

Frankly, any city person who doesn’t think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn’t deserve my special food.

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn’t make any money.

I’m still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn’t suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.

The farmer is a born philosopher, the aristocrat has to learn how.

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.

If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest.

To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.

I would rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.

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

It is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without proper respect for the soil.

Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.

Farming is a profession of hope.

If the farmer is poor then so is the whole country.

A good farmer is nothing less than a sensible human being.

When my daughter says, ‘Daddy, I need you!’ I wonder if she has any idea that I need her billion times more.