evidence: The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization." – Daniel Webster "A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus." – E.B. White "You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field." – Dwight D. Eisenhower "The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways." – John F. Kennedy "Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals & happiness." – Thomas Jefferson "The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer." – Will Rogers "The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings." – Masanobu Fukuoka "The master’s eye is the best fertilizer." – Pliny the Elder "We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist." – Wendell Berry "Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man." – George Washington