agriculture, n.Definitions

Agriculture is something like farming; only farming is doing it.

Agriculture is the divine chemistry that works in the subsoil..

Agriculture is, when measured by its usefulness, undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

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.

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

Agriculture is suggestive of culture whereas the city is suggestive of civilization. In the city are gathered, rightly or wrongly, the wealth and brains produced in the countryside. Civilization begins in the peasant's hut, but it comes to flower only in the towns.

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.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man. I had rather be on my own farm, than be emperor of the world.