Farming
No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
- Booker Taliaferro Washington, 1856 - 1915
To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.
- Charles Dudley Warner, 1829 - 1900
A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting.
- Gladys Taber, 1899 - 1980
On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.
- Willa Silbert Cather, 1873 - 1947
The study of tools as well as of books should have a place in the public schools. Tools, machinery, and the implements of the farm should be made familiar to every boy, and suitable industrial education should be furnished for every girl.
- Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1822 - 1893
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