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.
Conservation means development as much as it does protection._x000D_ _x000D_ A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
When you're on one of the Caribbean islands, sometimes it's hard to picture how they fit in with the rest, but when you see them all joined together like a necklace from space, you see the natural geographic connectedness of them all.
We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
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