Wisely
Come, friend farmer, what do you think of the business of farming?
You have had a season of rest from bodily labor, or from its
severities, during the winter, and a good time for reflection.
Farmers must think; they are not born to move without mental
activity, and their chance is great for profitable reflection. The vast
scenes of nature are all around us; and here is man, the tiller, the
cultivator of this great globe, placed in the midst of this vast
creation, to improve it, to adorn it, to live by it, and to enjoy it. Yes,
my good friend, you belong to that class who are, thus to speak,
the “lords of creation.”
farming 1864 agrarianism
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