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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture ...therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoölogy (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take), teach t...hat nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The present century has not dealt kindly with the farmer. His legends are all but obsolete, and his beliefs have been pared away b...y the professors at colleges of agriculture. Even the farm- bred bards who twang guitars before radio microphones prefer "I'm Headin' for the Last Roundup" to "Turkey in the Straw" or "Father Put the Cows Away."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been em...ployed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements ... might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 conque...red neighbours. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third 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 a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most fre...e to individual enterprise. Protection from casual embarrassments, however, may sometimes be seasonably interposed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had adv...anced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In past years, the amount of money that has had to be been spent on armaments, great and small, instead of on productive industry ...and agriculture and the arts, has been a disgrace to all of us in every part of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only... now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »