Julia Pellicciaro's List: thesis inspiration

• “Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own”
• “The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never  see the fruit.
• “The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility  rests on possession and use of land.”
• “Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind  Your labor is for future hours.  Advance! spare not! nor look behind!  Plough deep and straight with all your powers!”
• “He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.
• “A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.
• “Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil,  We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.”

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