Will Rogers Quotes

Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming.

Consumers cannot enjoy the prices and variety we farmers produce without embracing the technologies we use.

I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t invent a better agriculture by ourselves. Industrial agriculture wasn’t invented by us, and we can’t uninvent it. We’ll need some help with that.

When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.

There's a big difference between industrializing production of tractors and industrializing production of food. We like technology, but we really like technology that allows us to do better what nature does itself.

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

The Industrial Revolution did not spell the end of agriculture, or even the end of food production, in the United States. It just meant that a much smaller percentage of Americans had to work on farms to feed the population.

Establishment at public expense of rural depots for the most improved agricultural machinery, to be lent out to the agricultural population at a rent covering cost and management alone.

Our thanks, and something more substantial than thanks, are due to the man engaged in the effort to produce a successful steam plow.

My father was a farmer, and we have had some farming land in Haryana. Maybe I would have followed his footsteps and become a farmer.

Fancy GPS systems and space-age tractors are what most excite the farmers I know and astound their city friends.

The combine's a great experience, and I'm sure everyone will tell you the same thing. Cool experience, lots of fun, would never want to do it again.

Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.

Horseshoes are lucky. Horses have four bits of lucky nailed to their feet. They should be the luckiest animals in the world. They should rule the country. They should win all their horse races, at least. 'In the fifth race today, every single horse was first equal...one horse threw a shoe came in third...the duck was ninth...and five ran.'

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

I’m a country boy, so I really appreciate the country. I love fishing, so I fish between takes on set. During lunch, I go for a fish.

My father had a country store and then later, when I was 10 or 12, sold it and bought a farm equipment dealership in nearby Camden.

The horse would plough, the ox would drive the car. No; do the work you know, and tarry where you are.

I always believe in living in the country, because that's where what I eat is what I can put back in the dirt.

I grew up in the country, which is probably why I'm so attached to the land. I love it. I love the lay of the land. I love walking the land. And I love knowing that it's my land.

I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for example a lawnmower.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Aspects of life here civility, courtesy, coziness have always bound Britons to their country . . . They are part of the British myth, along with lovely countryside, dogs and horses, rose gardens, the Armada, the Battle of Britain.

The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.

The country has gone sane and got back to horses.