The Quotable Tractor

An icon of rural life, and quintessential Americana, the tractor has its day in the sun in this splendid book of photographs celebrating this venerable symbol of the working farm. The strapping machine of burnished gold, the familiar apple green, the shiny new model, the trusty old workhorse: all are here in their humble glory, astride the earth they help man work, accompanied by apt remarks—culled from wits and sages from Albert Einstein to Mark Twain, Aldo Leopold to FDR—about our deep and ageless cultivation of the land.