Quotes About Harvest

Knowledge is the harvest of attention

When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.

Every summer I'd spend a couple of months on the farm in Yale walking the dirt road that led to the highway, picking wild raspberries along the way. Often I'd walk out into the watermelons, pick one up over my head, and let it fall so that it split wide open. Then I'd eat the sweet heart out of it and leave the rest to the birds.

Best I love September's yellow...

That time of year, you know, when the summer, beginning to sadden, Full-mooned and silver-misted, glides from the heart of September, Mourned by desolate crickets, and iterant grasshoppers, crying All the still nights long, from the ripened abundance of gardens...

My idea of a perfect snack? A carrot, gently coerced from the soil, carefully wiped on my jeans, and eaten fresh.

Free Weeds U Pick 'Em

Weed 'em and reap.

Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.

God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.

Plant carrots in January and you'll never have to eat carrots.

Weed it and reap.

When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener.

The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.

Grandma always called her vegetable garden the Chapel — it brought her closer to God, was full of miracles, and fed the hungering of others.

Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.

Before us they planted, and now we eat what they have planted. We too must plant, so that those after us will likewise eat.

Because it is written that you reap what you sow, and the boy had sown good corn.

It was as if those school years bred a nostalgia so deep into the cells that the body woke to it each fall as naturally as the squirrels in the park began their frenzied harvest, never mind the weather was still fine, the sun still gracing them all.

I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.

As a farmer, you learn quick: You don't get anything that you don't work hard for.

It will not always be summer: build barns.

you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.

I entreat you to leave your work at home to the many who are ready to undertake it, and to come forth yourselves to reap this field now white to the harvest.