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title: "6 Organic Material Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-harrison/if-you-build-up-the-soil-with-organic-material-the-plants-will-do/)

[John Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-harrison/)

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> [“The "old school" of wastewater treatment, still embraced by most government regulators and many academics, considers water to be a vehicle for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-c-jenkins/the-old-school-of-wastewater-treatment-still-embraced-by-most/)

[Joseph C. Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-c-jenkins/)

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> [They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dixie-lee-ray/they-fail-to-recognize-the-broad-biological-principle-that-organic/)

[Dixie Lee Ray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dixie-lee-ray/)

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> [Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-borlaug/even-if-you-could-use-all-the-organic-material-that-you-have-the/)

[Norman Borlaug](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-borlaug/)

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> [The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dixie-lee-ray/the-organic-material-as-the-laws-of-chemistry-state-can-neither-be/)

[Dixie Lee Ray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dixie-lee-ray/)

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> [We're pretty sure there's plenty of organic material on Pluto. The atmosphere is largely methane, and in sunlight, methane builds organic molecules.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-grinspoon/we-re-pretty-sure-there-s-plenty-of-organic-material-on-pluto-the/)

[David Grinspoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-grinspoon/)

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