Ellsworth Huntington Quotes

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Everything is work on the farm.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.

The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.

I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need.

Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture.

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.

I raise corn and cattle and soybeans. Soybeans are a good cash crop.

Farming's always been my business.

Agriculture is in my heart.

America's ranchers and farmers produce the highest-quality products in the world.

Agriculture drives most people crazy. It keeps me sane.

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

Agriculture has deep roots both in my life and in Arkansas' history.

Starting as a few bands of hunter-gatherers, humanity expanded the food resources afforded by the land a thousandfold through the development of agriculture.

You can't drive through Iowa and not think about farming: No less than 85 percent of the land in the state is devoted to farms, many of them more than 1,000 acres. This is the place where seeds are sown. It's where farmers grow the corn that will be fed to pigs as grain or fed to you as syrup or fermented to ethanol for your gas tank.

Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.

If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.

Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.

I was raised - my mom and dad were dairy farmers. Once you've made a decision to plant a crop for that year, you can't go back and undo that decision.

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

All presbyters, clerks, monks, converts, pilgrims, and peasants, when they are engaged in the labours of husbandry, together with their cattle in their ploughs, and the feed which they carry into the field, shall enjoy perfect security; and that all who molest tem, if they do not desist when they have been admonished, shall be excommunicated.

Three acres and a cow.