“God, whose farm is all creation,
take the gratitude we give;
take the finest of our harvest,
crops we grow that all may live.”

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”

Cynthia Ozick (1928) American writer

“I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief”

Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright

“Other lands became a larder full of all the good things
All we had to do was go and take
Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest
Black the colour icing on our cake”

Andy Partridge (1953) British musician

“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”

Masanobu Fukuoka book The One-Straw Revolution

“In all adversity, what God takes away He may give us back with increase.”

Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–1882) British saint

“It is God’s will that we take His behests and His comfortings as largely and as mightily as we may take them, and also He willeth that we take our abiding and our troubles as lightly as we may take them, and set them at nought. For the more lightly we take them, and the less price we set on them, for love, the less pain we shall have in the feeling of them, and the more thanks and meed we shall have for them.”

Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress

“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.”

Ovid (-43–17 BC) Roman poet

“I'm convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

“When we need a new nation to develop and grow to bring us good fruits then why we don’t put our hands together, and everyone can take their small side of farms, till we reach out to each other. as long as we move in.”

Ayuel Monykuch (1997) South Sudanese Entrepreneur