Under natural conditions, the soil does not lose its fixed…

Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.

— John Holdren

When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder; one gets a…

— Djuna Barnes

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them…

— Anonymous

Every soil does not produce every material.

— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Our bodies are garbage heaps: we collect experience, and from the decomposition of the thrown-out eggshells, spinach leaves, coffee grinds, and old steak bones…

— Natalie Goldberg

Agricultural husbandry essentially maintains the balance of bound nitrogen.

— Fritz Haber

From the results so far obtained it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the long-range atoms arising from collision of alpha particles with…

— Ernest Rutherford

We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the…

— Lennart Nilsson

Too often, chefs just want to experiment - they want to use liquid nitrogen before they know how to use heat.

— Tom Colicchio

England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a…

— William Crookes

In a certain sense I made a living for five or six years out of that one star [Ï… Sagittarii] and it is still…

— Jesse L. Greenstein

“I regard breathing industrial gas to be as harmful as heavy smoking.”

— Steven Magee

And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water,…

— William McDonough

“Before artificial nitrogen fertilizer became widely available, the world's population was around 2 billion. When we no longer have it - or if we…

— Alan Weisman

…oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order…

— Jules Verne