“Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain,
Like other farmers, flourish and complain.”
George Crabbe (1754–1832) English poet, surgeon, and clergyman
The Parish Register (1807), Part 1: "Baptisms", line 273.
“Hey farmer, farmer,
Put away that DDT now
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!”
"Big Yellow Taxi"
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Richard Cobden (1804–1865) English manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1843/feb/17/distress-of-the-country-adjourned-debate in the House of Commons (17 February 1843). <br class="br">1840s
“I am the poet who once tuned his song
On a slender reed and then leaving the woods
Compelled the fields to obey the hungry farmer,
A pleasing work. But now War's grim and savage …”
Ille ego, qui quondam gracili modulatus avena
Carmen, et egressus silvis vicina coegi
Ut quamvis avido parerent arva colono,
Gratum opus agricolis, at nunc horrentia Martis<!--
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Virgil (-70–-19 BC) Ancient Roman poet
Ille ego, qui quondam gracili modulatus avena<br>Carmen, et egressus silvis vicina coegi<br>Ut quamvis avido parerent arva colono,<br>Gratum opus agricolis, at nunc horrentia Martis ... <br class="br">Spurious opening lines of the Aeneid (tr. Stanley Lombardo), not found in the earliest manuscripts. Attributed to Virgil on the authority of "the grammarian Nisus", who claimed to have "heard from older men" that Varius had "emended the beginning of the first book by striking out" the four introductory lines, as reported in Suetonius' Life of Vergil http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/de_Poetis/Vergil*.html, 42 (Loeb translation). John Conington, in his Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, remarks: "The external evidence of such a story it is impossible to estimate, but its existence suspiciously indicates that the lines were felt to require apology" (Vol. II, p. 30). <br class="br">Attributed
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
1910s, The New Nationalism (1910)
Context: Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us. I ask nothing of the nation except that it so behave as each farmer here behaves with reference to his own children. That farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself. I believe the same thing of a nation.
Tom Springfield (1934) English musician, songwriter and record producer
Song Island of Dreams.
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
Suffragette City
Song lyrics, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
Verghese Kurien (1921–2012) Indian founder of dairy-cooperative Amul
Quote, Amul builder Verghese Kurien's best quotes and pictures from Economic Times archives
“If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.”
James Herriot (1916–1995) veterinary surgeon and writer
Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American actor and comedian
Variant: What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.