Arthur Young

Agriculturist

1741-09-11 – 1820-04-12

English writer and agricultural reform advocate whose surveys and travel writing shaped modern agricultural economics and policy debate in Britain and Europe. He documented social and economic conditions before and during the French Revolution. He died in 1820.

Quotes by Arthur Young

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
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There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.
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