Wheat Fields

Famous quotes containing the words wheat and/or fields:

    Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat and potatoes, they cultivate literature, and fill a place in the Republic of Letters. Or they would fain write for fame merely, as others actually raise crops of grain to be distilled into brandy.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    It is not those who till the fields who eat fine rice, nor those who rear the silkworms who wear fine silks.
    Chinese proverb.