Paul Hollywood Quotes

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

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.

[The plow] is the instrument which separates civilization from savagery; and converts a desert into a farm or garden.... To be more concise, Rain follows the plow.

My parents had a gardener when I was growing up, and he and I would dig in the dirt together - my mom and dad were definitely not digging with me! When I was 5, he helped me plant some corn in our backyard, and I remember how fascinating it was to watch it grow. Little did I know that 50 years later I'd be growing corn in a different way.

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.

Farming's always been my business.

The vinery is not made with blessings, but with hoes and spades.

Our Indian neighbors are advancing, many of them with spirit, and others beginning to engage in the pursuits of agriculture and household manufacture. They are becoming sensible that the earth yields subsistence with less labor and more certainty than the forest.

Corne, which is the staffe of life

Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; ... drop a grain of our blessed gold [wheat] into the ground and lo! a mystery.

Governing a state without ritual is like plowing a field without a plowshare.

I know more about wheat and olive trees than I do about politics.

My grandparents were always farmers.

We did not domesticate wheat; wheat domesticated us.

I can't even cook an egg. The only thing I can do well is baking bread. I love it and find it incredibly therapeutic.

Thank you to our farmers for all you do to keep food on our tables.

Creating the record is like digging up the earth, planting your seeds and waiting to see what happens.

The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.

Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net. For the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us.

Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.

All man has to do is cooperate with the big forces, the sun, the rain, the growing urge. Seeds sprout, stems grow, leaves spread in the sunlight. Man plants, weeds, cultivates and harvests. It sounds simple, and it is simple, with the simplicity of great truths.