Aphorisms

The best compost for the lands
Is the wise master's feet and hands
-- Robert Herrick

Praise a great estate
But cultivate a small one
-- Virgil

The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class a citizens least given to evil designs
-- Cato

Of all occupations from which gain is secured, there is none better than agriculture, nothing more productive, nothing sweeter, nothing more worthy of a free man.
-- Cicero

A plowman on his legs is higher than a Gentleman on his knees.
-- Benjamin Franklin