Jobs of any kind, but especially if they hold much long-range promise, still don’t grow on trees; wages still are among the lowest in the nation, and the gap between these eastern [North Carolina] counties and the Piedmont cities, as between rich and poor, gets wider and wider.  Manufacturing is not what it used to be, and yet, most people looking for work aren’t prepared for anything else.  

         Linda Flowers

 

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field. 

         Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raised all on my own. 

         Emiliano Zapata

 

There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.      

         Rachel Carson 

 

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.         

         Leo Buscaglia

 

I realized that if I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

       Charles Lindbergh