Now I tell you this, 
 continued
 Socrates ,
 because even the wealthiest cannot hold aloof from
 husbandry. For the pursuit of it is in some sense a
 luxury as well as a means of increasing one’s estate
 and of training the body in all that a free man
 should be able to do. 
 For, in the first place, the earth yields to cultivators
 the food by which men live; she yields besides the
 luxuries they enjoy.