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 Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she
 laughs with a harvest.  
 Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she
 laughs with a harvest. 
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are read more
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
 Ill husbandry braggeth
 To go with the best:
  Good husbandry baggeth
   Up gold in read more 
 Ill husbandry braggeth
 To go with the best:
  Good husbandry baggeth
   Up gold in his chest.
   - Thomas Tusser, 
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age
 Ill husbandry lieth
 In prison for debt:
  Good husbandry spieth
   Where profit get.
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 Ill husbandry lieth
 In prison for debt:
  Good husbandry spieth
   Where profit get.
   - Thomas Tusser, 
 Look up! the wide extended plain
 Is billowy with its ripened grain,
  And on the summer winds read more 
 Look up! the wide extended plain
 Is billowy with its ripened grain,
  And on the summer winds are rolled
   Its waves of emerald and gold. 
 He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.
 [Lat., Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum.]  
 He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.
 [Lat., Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum.] 
 Adam, well may we labour, still to dress
 This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.  
 Adam, well may we labour, still to dress
 This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.