National Farmers' Day 2020: Quotes To Acknowledge The Cultivators

National Farmers' Day is celebrated in the United States annually on Oct. 12 to pay tribute to farmers and thank them for their tireless work.

The best way to celebrate the day is by supporting the farmers by buying locally grown vegetables and fruits. Another way to observe the day is by starting a garden and growing your own food.

On this day, here are a few quotes to ackowledge the backbone of the breadbasket, courtesy Good Reads –

• "To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth." ― Amit Kalantri
• "Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds." ― Thomas Jefferson
• "Their hands are tied not by ropes but by the greed of the intermediaries that the system has generated, who eat up the farmer’s income while it is on its way into his hands." ― Faraaz Kazi
• "This land pulses with life. It breathes in me; it breathes around me; it breathes in spite of me. When I walk on this land, I am walking on the heartbeat of the past and the future. And that’s only one of the reasons I am a farmer." ― Brenda Sutton Rose
• "But farmers are patient men tried by brutal seasons, and if they weren't plagued by dreams of generation, few would keep plowing, spring after spring." ― Richard Powers
• "Less than two percent of all Americans are now farmers. Corporations with all the warmth of equity investors now control the breadbasket of America. Anyone care to speculate how corporate control of the world’s food banks will work out for ordinary people who must eat to survive." ― Kilroy J. Oldster
• "He who doesn’t regard agriculture will truly value it when food becomes scarce!" ― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah