“This leads to the further reflection, that no other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture. I know of nothing so pleasant to the mind, as the discovery of anything which is at once new and valuable nothing…”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“Farmers have been starving... What Filipinos do not realize is how significant farmers are to the country’s food security. People do not realize that in a town in Central Luzon, where majority of the nation's rice supply comes from, a 72-year-old farmer gets up before sunrise every single day to pro…”— Danielle Nakpil, rappler.com
“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no lif…”— Wendell Berry, amazon.com