Practiced Agriculture

Famous quotes containing the words practiced and/or agriculture:

    He thought he saw an Elephant,
    That practiced on a fife:
    He looked again, and found it was
    A letter from his wife.
    “At length I realize,” he said,
    “The bitterness of Life!”
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)