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There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third is by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry. ~ Benjamin Franklin

No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. ~ Booker T. Washington ~

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man.

~ George Washington ~

To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves. ~ Gandhi ~

The key to the future of the world lies in gardening. One individual with a digging fork and a small garden can make a difference. ~ From the foreword -- Gardening For The Future Of The Earth ~

The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.

~ The Lord of the Rings ~

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch their renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do. ~ Charles Dudley Warner ~

Man, despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication and many accomplishments, owes the fact of his existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

~ Anonymous ~

Life on a small farm might seem primitive, but by living such a life we become able to discover the Great Path. I believe that one who deeply respects his neighborhood and everyday world in which he lives will be shown the greatest of all worlds.

~ Masanobu Fukuoka ~

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. ~ Aristotle ~

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