"The usual way of growing cotton is highly……" — Alex Shoumatoff
"The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by soil bacteria into nitrate, a toxic and highly soluble chemical that can leach into groundwater or get washed into lakes, creating oxygenless dead zones."
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16 Quotes by Alex Shoumatoff
Alex Shoumatoff has 16 quotes on this site.
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Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in…
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Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten…
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There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by…
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The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met.…
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Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of…
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If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them…
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The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.
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The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until…
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As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to…
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According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict…
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The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet.
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Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by…
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More Acre Quotes
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one of 47 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and…
— Samuel Beckett
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My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four…
— Dave Brubeck
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Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can…
— George A. Sheehan
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And in this battle, Brother William (Guillaume), Master of the Templars, lost an eye; and he had lost the other…
— Jean de Joinville
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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
— Red Auerbach
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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives…
— Orison Swett Marden
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It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It…
— Thomas Jefferson
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An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far…
— Denis Hayes
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Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
— William Shakespeare
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There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield…
— Henry Ford
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I was in Australia....Lotta leg room down under. Apartments: dollar a month. 2000-acre den....think of the parties.
— Bill Hicks
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All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.
— Buffy Sainte-Marie
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