Thomas Jefferson Quotes
I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest a continued one through the year.
Jefferson, Thomas. "Letter to Charles Willson Peale." 20 Aug. 1811. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, edited by J. Jefferson Looney, vol. 4, Princeton University Press, 2007, pp. 89-90.
Slogan of British land reform movement led by Collings against the ministry of Lord Salisbury and in favor of Joseph Chamberlain.
These were amazingly accurate assessments at a time when this was not at all obvious to most. The large mechanization of agriculture would take place in the 1830s and 1840s but this astute observer saw the intellectual ideas impinging on society and realized that it was only a matter of time for these ideas to be implemented and bring great change to agriculture. That change has never stopped and continues at an even more rapid pace in modern times making American Agriculture the most efficient and effective in the world.
Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He had previously served as the second vice president of the United States under John Adams between 1797 and 1801. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, motivating American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation; he produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national levels.
