I have a few trailing threads
here that are drafts, so I might as well start to publish a few of
them. Here's one, which are quotes about agriculture, or which
reference it, which surprised me.
Note, this started out as a trailing thread, before it became its own page, which it seemed better suited for.
Marcus Cato
_________________________________________________________________________________It is true that to obtain money by trade is sometimes more profitable, were it not so hazardous; and likewise money-lending, if it were as honorable. Our ancestors held this view and embodied it in their laws, which required that the thief be mulcted double and the usurer fourfold; how much less desirable a citizen they considered the usurer than the thief, one may judge from this. And when they would praise a worthy man their praise took this form: "good husbandman, good farmer"; one so praised was thought to have received the greatest commendation. The trader I consider to be an energetic man, and one bent on making money; but, as I said above, it is a dangerous career and one subject to disaster. On the other hand, it is from the farming class that the bravest men and the sturdiest soldiers come, their calling is most highly respected, their livelihood is most assured and is looked on with the least hostility, and those who are engaged in that pursuit are least inclined to be disaffected.
G. K. Chesterton
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare._________________________________________________________________________________
G. K. Chesterton
You can't have the family farm without the family.
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Coen Brothers (Oh Brother! Where Art Thou?)
Ulysses Everett McGill: What about you, Delmar? What are you gonna do with your share of that dough?
Delmar O'Donnell: I'm gonna visit them foreclosein' son of a guns down at the Indianola Savings and Loan. Slap that money on the barrel head and buy back the family farm. You ain't no kind of man if you ain't got land.
Calvin Coolige:
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Catherine Doherty
Farming was the way of life meant for the majority of menDate Added: May 16, 2014
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Dwight Eisenhower:
__________________________________________________________________________________Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Henry Ford:
Surprising quote from Henry Ford:
Surprising in that, while no doubt unintentional, his product did so much to make the land "shrink in extent" and also to make it so much more difficult to obtain for the average farmer hopeful.
Book of Genisis
Israel loved Joseph best of all his sons,__________________________________________________________________________________
for he was the child of his old age;
and he had made him a long tunic.
When his brothers saw that their father loved him best of all his sons,
they hated him so much that they would not even greet him.
One day, when his brothers had gone
to pasture their father’s flocks at Shechem,
Israel said to Joseph,
“Your brothers, you know, are tending our flocks at Shechem.
Get ready; I will send you to them.”
So Joseph went after his brothers and caught up with them in Dothan.
They noticed him from a distance,
and before he came up to them, they plotted to kill him.
They said to one another: “Here comes that master dreamer!
Come on, let us kill him and throw him into one of the cisterns here;
we could say that a wild beast devoured him.
We shall then see what comes of his dreams.”
When Reuben heard this,
he tried to save him from their hands, saying,
“We must not take his life.
Instead of shedding blood,” he continued,
“just throw him into that cistern there in the desert;
but do not kill him outright.”
His purpose was to rescue him from their hands
and return him to his father.
So when Joseph came up to them,
they stripped him of the long tunic he had on;
then they took him and threw him into the cistern,
which was empty and dry.
They then sat down to their meal.
Looking up, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead,
their camels laden with gum, balm and resin
to be taken down to Egypt.
Judah said to his brothers:
“What is to be gained by killing our brother and concealing his blood?
Rather, let us sell him to these Ishmaelites,
instead of doing away with him ourselves.
After all, he is our brother, our own flesh.”
His brothers agreed.
They sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver.
Howard Hawks (Red River)
Dunson: Tell Don Diego, tell him that all the land north of that river's mine. Tell him to stay off of it.__________________________________________________________________________________
Fernandez: Oh, but the land is his.
Dunson: Where did he get it?
Fernandez: Oh many years ago by grant and patent, inscribed by the King of all of Spain.
Dunson: You mean he took it away from whomever was here before. Indians maybe.
Fernandez: Maybe so.
Dunson: Well, I'm takin' it away from him.
Fernandez: Others have thought as you, señor. Others have tried.
Dunson: And you've always been good enough to stop 'em?
Fernandez: Amigo, it is my work.
Dunson: Pretty unhealthy job.
Book of Genesis, Chapter 37.
Isiah
Thus says the LORD:Chapter 55.
Just as from the heavens
the rain and snow come down
And do not return there
till they have watered the earth,
making it fertile and fruitful,
Giving seed to the one who sows
and bread to the one who eats,
So shall my word be
that goes forth from my mouth;
It shall not return to me void,
but shall do my will,
achieving the end for which I sent it.
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Matthew
Date added: September 20, 2013.
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Psalms R. (see 103:10a) Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.Psalms, Chapter 79.
Remember not against us the iniquities of the past;
may your compassion quickly come to us,
for we are brought very low.
R. Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.
Help us, O God our savior,
because of the glory of your name;
Deliver us and pardon our sins
for your name’s sake.
R. Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.
Let the prisoners’ sighing come before you;
with your great power free those doomed to death.
Then we, your people and the sheep of your pasture,
will give thanks to you forever;
through all generations we will declare your praise.
R. Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.
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Psalms
R. (1) The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.Psalms Chapter 23.
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
In verdant pastures he gives me repose;
Beside restful waters he leads me;
he refreshes my soul.
R. The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
Even though I walk in the dark valley
I fear no evil; for you are at my side
With your rod and your staff
that give me courage.
R. The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
You spread the table before me
in the sight of my foes;
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
R. The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
Only goodness and kindness follow me
all the days of my life;
And I shall dwell in the house of the LORD
for years to come.
R. The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
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United States
Forty acres and a mule._________________________________________________________________________________
This quote needs some explanation. Forty acres was the basic yeoman farmers agricultural unit in the United States, and a single mule sufficient to farm it. It was the dream, and indeed the expectation, of recently freed slaves at the conclusion of the Civil War that the United States would grant to them 40 acres, and a mule, in order to make them independent farmers.
The actual origin of the phrase, which was widely used, is obscure, although some attribute it to President Lincoln. Spike Lee uses the phrase today as the name of his film production company.
George Washington
I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world._________________________________________________________________________________
George Washington
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George Washington
Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man.Date added: December 27, 2019
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Wyoming Supreme Court
We cannot ignore, as judges, what we know, as men, of the general condition of the country. As residents of the arid region, interested in its business conditions, we know - and as lawyers and judges, deriving our knowledge from reported cases, we know - that there are vast quantities of agricultural land cultivated in the arid region, and made valuable by the use of water, the right to which depends upon a conveyance of the land without mentioning water, water right, or irrigating ditch. Land and water together are of great value. The value of the land without the use of the water is trivial. And the conditions are such, in many instances, that, if the owner of the land is deprived of the use of the water to which he has been accustomed, he cannot procure other water. In other instances it can be done only at great expense.
Frank v. Hicks , 4 Wyo. 502 (Wyo. 1893).
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Emiliano Zapata 
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