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.
I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Protect the ocean and you protect yourself.
When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.
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