Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.
Interpretation
Agriculture represents a peaceful and self-sufficient way of life that promotes health and independence.
Thomas Jefferson emphasizes the virtues of agriculture as a profession that fosters tranquility, promotes good health, and allows individuals to lead independent lives. By engaging in farming and cultivation, people not only connect with nature but also attain a sense of fulfillment and autonomy, which are essential for personal well-being.
In practice
This quote could be shared in a discussion about sustainable living and the benefits of farming.
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
We can hold back neither the coming of the flowers nor the downward rush of the stream; sooner or later, everything comes to its fruition.
All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.
The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes.
If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.
Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
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