Novalis Quotes

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Soil is a living ecosystem, and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.

Farmers are farmers in the first place because they have the deep-seated instinct to raise crops, not to cut them back, not to leave the land unproductive.

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.

The soil says, don't bring me your need, bring me your seed.

you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.

There are no miracles in agricultural production.

China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that its soils are still healthy after four millennia of intensive agriculture, while other great civilizations - the Maya, for one - floundered when their soils turned to dust.

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

We have to stop treating soil like dirt.

Growing up on a Cumbrian farm showed me first hand that you get out of life what you put in. If you don't put crops in the ground, you can't feed your animals or earn money.

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.

There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.

From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth.

All soils are not fertile.

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.