If you are a farmer, you want to be a farmer, or you simply have the utmost respect for farmers….these quotes are for YOU! I have compiled 100 inspiring farm life quotes to celebrate farmers around the world!
These are the best quotes I could find on the internet, and now they’re all here for you, in one place! If the farm life is calling you, have a scroll through these inspirational quotes. They will foster your love of farming and maybe even encourage you to start cultivating your own land!
Growing a garden and animal husbandry require lots of hard work and dedication. But without the farmers who are willing to do it, none of us would be here! Take a few minutes to read through these farm life quotes and if you can, find a local farmer and thank him or her for all that they do!
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Inspirational Farm Life Quotes
1. “Cultivators are the most valuable citizens… they are tied to their country.” – Thomas Jefferson
2. “To be a farmer is to be a student forever, for each day brings something new.” -John Connell
3. “As long as there’s a few farmers out there, we’ll keep fighting for them.” – Willie Nelson
4. “Farming is a profession of hope.” – Brett Brian
5. “The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” – Masanobu Fukuoka
6. “Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.” – Thomas Jefferson
7. “It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.” – B. C. Forbes
8. “The farm is part of me.” – Erich Wehrenberg
9. “Farming is a matter of dirt and dung. It is not the kind of thing we look to to find the meaning of human life. It is too ordinary, too inescapably a part of life to be interesting. We know that it has to be done, but see no reason to pay much attention to it. But it is just because farming is inescapably a part of human life that it may provide a clue to what is most basically human, and so a clue to our place within the cosmos.” – Stephanie Nelson
10. “Agriculture is the noblest of all alchemy; for it turns earth, and even manure, into gold, conferring upon its cultivator the additional reward of health.” – Paul Chatfield
11. “Strong communities are built around local, real food. Food we trust to nourish our bodies, the farmer and planet.” – Kimbal Musk
12. “Farming isn’t something that can be taught. Each plant tells its own story that has to be read repeatedly.” — Kelsey Timmerman
13. “Our farmers deserve praise, not condemnation; and their efficiency should be cause for gratitude, not something for which they are penalized.” — John F. Kennedy
14. “I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.” – Miguel Indurain
15. “When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.” – Daniel Webster
16. “Agriculture is a fundamental source of national prosperity.” – J.J. Mapes
17. “Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.” – Mahatma Gandhi
18. “No race can prosper until it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.” – Booker T. Washington
19. “A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.” -Wendell Berry
20. “Here in the country, on a little farm in southern Georgia, I am building a quiet life of resistance. I am a radical peasant, and every day I take out my little hammer, and I keep building.” -Janisse Ray
21. “Soil is not just a substance, soil is the soul.” -Amit Kalantri
22. “It was farmers that took all that land and made it America…It was farmers that went over the mountains, and cleared the land, and settled it, and farmed it, and hung onto their land.” –Laura Ingalls Wilder
23. “In olden times there were warriors, farmers, craftsmen, and merchants. Agriculture was said to be closer to the source of things than trade or manufacturing, and the farmer was said to be “the cupbearer of the gods.” He was always able to get by somehow or other and have enough to eat.” -Masanobu Fukuoka
24. “The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.” ― Thomas Jefferson
25. “Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.” ― Billy Graham
Farm Life Quotes That Are So True!
26. “To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” -Mahatma Gandhi
27. “The master’s eye is the best fertilizer.” – Pliny the Elder
28. “The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.” – Will Rogers
29. “We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.” – Wendell Berry
30. “It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.” – Cato the Elder
31. “Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can’t hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.” – Henri Alain
32. “Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.” – Samuel Johnson
33. “Farming isn’t a battle against nature, but a partnership with it. It is respecting the basics of nature in action and ensuring that they continue.” – Jeff Koehler
34. “I do think that there is a big difference between family farms and agri-business, and one of the distressing things that I think has occurred is with consolidation of farm lands. You’ve seen large agri-businesses benefit from enormous profits from existing farm programs, and I think we should be focusing most of those programs on those family farmers.” – Barack Obama
35. “I love the idea of farm to table and farmer’s markets. I enjoy a meal more if I know I’m eating something that’s good quality and good for me.” – Haylie Duff
36. “When I help a farmer, I don’t differentiate between them based on their region, as farmers have no borders. I want to live like a world citizen and react like a human being.” – Prakash Raj
37. “Agriculture was the first occupation of man, and as it embraces the whole earth, it is the foundation of all other industries.” – Edward W. Stewart
38. “My grandfather used to say that once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman and a preacher, but every day, three times a day, you need a farmer.” – Brenda Schoepp
39. “If the farmer is poor then so is the whole country.” — Polish Proverb
40. “The corn is not choked by the weeds but by the negligence of the farmer.” — Chinese Proverb
41. “Raw ingredients trump recipes every time; farmers and ranchers who coax the best from the earth can make any of us appear to be a great cook.” — Judy Rodgers
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42. “As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.” – William Howard Taft
43. “It will not be doubted that with reference either to individual or national welfare, agriculture is of primary importance.” – George Washington
44. “There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.” –Aldo Leopold
45. “There’s nothing like eating food you’ve grown yourself.” -A.D. Aliwat
46. “If you really want to be a good gardener, you need to understand what is going on in your soil.” -Jeff Lowenfels
47. “A farmer is always going to be rich next year.” -Philemon
48. “In winter’s chill or summer’s heat, farmers and ranchers work so the world can eat.” -Author Unknown
49. “Because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.” -Ike Skelton
50. “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.” ― Howard Warren Buffett
51. “Know your food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.” ― Joel Salatin
52. “Farming is intrinsically about sustaining land, family, and community.” — Hal Hamilton
53. “To a farmer, dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.” — Amit Kalantrirge Washington
Quirky Quotes About Farm Life
54. “I would rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.” – George Washington
55. “Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.” – Joseph Joubert
56. “Do what you love to do, and be around things that make you smile. The cows make me smile every day.” – David Jackson
57. “I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.” – Andy Warhol
58. “There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.” – Bill Bryson
59. “Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.” – Edgar Watson Howe
60. “My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.” – Lenny Kravitz
61. “A farm is a manipulative creature. There is no such thing as finished. Work comes in a stream and has no end. There are only the things that must be done now and things that can be done later. The threat the farm has got on you, the one that keeps you running from can until can’t is this: do it now, or some living thing will wilt or suffer or die. Its blackmail, really.” – Kristin Kimball
62. “If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer’s crop, who are we to say it shouldn’t rain?” – Tom Barrett
63. “If you tickle the earth with a hoe she laughs with a harvest.” – Douglas Jerrold
64. “A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.” — Amit Kalantri
65. “A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.” — E.B. White (Click here to read some more great quotes from E.B. White.)
Eye Opening Farm Life Quotes
66. “The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
67. “Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with less care at lower cost.” – Matthew Scully
68. “Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.” – Bernard Baruch
69. “To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.” – Sam Farr
70. “Agriculture has become essential to life; the forest, the lake, and the ocean cannot sustain the increasing family of man; population declines with a declining cultivation, and nations have ceased to be with the extinction of their agriculture.” – Elias Hasket Derby
71. “It is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without a proper respect for the soil.” – Peter Maurin
These next ones really make you think…
72. “We need farmers, more than any other profession. If lawyers, politicians, bankers, university academics or salesmen were to somehow disappear tomorrow, I think the world would muddle through pretty well. Some things might even get better. But if farmers were to vanish, most of us would be dead within a year.” — Dave Goulson
73. “If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.” – Robert Patterson
74. “The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.” -Joel Salatin
75. “You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
76. “When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized.” -Masanobu Fukuoka
77. “Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.” ― Michael Pollan
78. “The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.” — Abraham Lincoln
Quotes That Celebrate The Hard Work Of Farming
79. “It feels good at the end of the day to know you made a product that other people are going to enjoy.” – Jericho Sanchez
80. “Frankly, any city person who doesn’t think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn’t deserve my special food.” – Joel Salatin
81. “The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.” – Arthur Keith
82. “Never underestimate a farmer.” — Lance Conrad
83. “He who does not cultivate his field will die of hunger.” — Guinean Proverb
84. “The farmers are the founders of civilization.” ― Daniel Webster
85. “The farmer is the only man in our economy who can turn a barren field into a fertile oasis with nothing but hard work and determination.” — Robert Green Ingersoll
86. “Those too lazy to plow in the right season will have no food at the harvest.” — Proverbs 20:4
87. “In undertaking farming we undertake a responsibility covering the whole life cycle. We can break it or keep it whole.” — Lord Northbourne
88. “Agriculture for an honorable and high-minded man, is the best of all occupations and arts by which men procure the means of living.” — Xenophon
Farm Life Quotes All About Family
89. “The story of family farming underscores a legacy of sustainability.” – Amanda Zaluckyj
90. “Whether it’s on the tractor or in the pasture with the cows, I just love being able to take my kids to work when I need to.” – Will Collier
91. “He was born to be a farmer. It was something that he was good at, something he knew well. He was a giver of life, an alchemist that worked in dirt, seed, and manure.” ― Tracy Winegar
92. “We need more young people involved in farming because the future needs real food.” — Helena Sylvester
I love this next one…
93. “Farming is a calling. A calling to risk everything, to provide everything, for everyone.” — Kelly Griggs
94. “I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.” — Bjork
95. “You get to sit down at the end of the day and you know that you got through it with your family.” – Wesley Fraze
96. “The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.” — Armstrong Williams
97. “The fight to save family farms isn’t just about farmers. It’s about making sure that there is a safe and healthy food supply for all of us. It’s about jobs, from Main Street to Wall Street. It’s about a better America.” — Willie Nelson
98. “Working with family makes what you do worthwhile, as you teach kids responsibility and the importance of life.” – John Devos
99. “We raised our kids the best we could, doing what we loved to do. It was hard work, but we always had time to smile and laugh.” – Thomas Meyer
Lastly, I’ll leave you with this inspiring quote from Wendell Berry….
100. “Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulties normal to farming? And always the answer is: Love. They must do it for love. Farmers farm for the love of farming. They love to watch and nurture the growth of plants. They love to live in the presence of animals. They love to work outdoors. They love the weather, maybe even when it is making them miserable. They love to live where they work and to work where they live. If the scale of their farming is small enough, they like to work in the company of their children and with the help of their children. They love the measure of independence that farm life can still provide.” Wendell Berry
I hope you enjoyed this list of inspirational farm life quotes! Next time you’re at the farmer’s market, make sure to shake the hands of some farmers and thank them for all their hard work!
Blessings!
~Maryann
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