We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.
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I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.
It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there.
But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
I'm a farmer. I always will be a farmer. When I die, I'll be a farmer. It's something that I've wanted to do since I was 8 years old. I can tell you also that I see opportunity slipping away for our kids.
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.