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Quotes About Agriculture

Men of England, wherefore plowFor the lords who lay ye low?
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I grew up on a farm," Ayanna protested. "We worked the land." She pulled a face. "Well, I helped Dad program the agribots.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
20.500 kycklingar, sa hon. Om dagen. För att föda London. 5.800 grisar. 1.520 nötkreatur. 6.000 får. Enligt The Meat and Livestock Commission. Staden intar dagligen två miljoner kilo animaliskt protein. Man skulle kunna betrakta London som en monstruös maskin för bearbetning av husdjur.
~ Peter Høeg
I looked at the terraced hills and noticed how the people had changed the earth, taming it into dizzying staircases of rice paddies; but the Chinese looked at the people and saw how they have been shaped by the land.
~ Peter Hessler
Later she gave birth to Cainís brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.
~ Genesis 4:2
So in the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the LORD,
~ Genesis 4:3
Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and raise livestock.
~ Genesis 4:20
Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.
~ Genesis 9:20
30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.
~ Genesis 32:15
when seven cows, sleek and well-fed, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
~ Genesis 41:2
After them, seven other cows, sickly and thin, came up from the Nile and stood beside the well-fed cows on the bank of the river.
~ Genesis 41:3
when seven cows, well-fed and sleek, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
~ Genesis 41:18
The men are shepherds; they raise livestock, and they have brought their flocks and herds and all that they own.í
~ Genesis 46:32
Throughout the land of Egypt, the hail struck down everything in the field, both man and beast; it beat down every plant of the field and stripped every tree.
~ Exodus 9:25
Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its motherís milk.”
~ Exodus 34:26
If a carcass falls on any seed for sowing, the seed is clean;
~ Leviticus 11:37
The cities will be for them to live in, and the pasturelands will be for their herds, their flocks, and all their other livestock.
~ Numbers 35:3
a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;
~ Deuteronomy 8:8
Jarmuth, and En-gannim—four cities, together with their pasturelands.
~ Joshua 21:29
Dimnah, and Nahalal—four cities, together with their pasturelands.
~ Joshua 21:35
Heshbon, and Jazer—four cities in all, together with their pasturelands.
~ Joshua 21:39
Then he lit the torches and released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines, burning up the piles of grain and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.
~ Judges 15:5
Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.
~ 1 Samuel 13:20
The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.
~ 1 Samuel 13:21