Quotes about Agriculture

Food production is just one part of the repeated emphasis that you store a provision of food which will last for at least a year wherever it is legally permissible to do so.

What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice.

They then started to test the other children, and it was discovered that none of us had sufficient vitamin C, D, or A in our diets. We never had fruit, never had raw leafy greens, never had milk. There was plenty of this on the Island, you know, but it was all sold, every scrap of it, to the mainland, and had been since slavery time.

And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger.

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand.

A swarm of bees in MayIs worth a load of hay;A swarm of bees in JuneIs worth a silver spoon;A swarm of bees in JulyIs not worth a fly.

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

Thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbor's standing corn.

He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

The earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?