Compost Quotes
39 quotes by 37 authors
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All it takes is to pick up that one piece of trash you pass everyday on your way to work. Or to turn the water…
— Shailene Woodley
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Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive,…
— William Cowper
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Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever.
— Rick DeMarinis
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Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is!
— Peter Cundall
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One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I think there's only so many people that can take care of themselves, and can take care of other people. And the rest of the…
— Bill Murray
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I've frequently been asked over the years who Lily Savage was based on and I've always answered that it was no one in particular and…
— Paul O'Grady
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I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and…
— Curtis Stone
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Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful…
— Henry Morton Stanley
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In my opinion, if there is one extremely legitimate use for petroleum besides running wood chippers and front-end loaders to handle compost, it's making plastic…
— Joel Salatin
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However small your garden, you must provide for two of the serious gardener's necessities, a tool shed and a compost heap. A wire bin takes…
— Ann Scott
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I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil. He is a creature…
— Karel Capek
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I am open to the accusation that I see compost as an end it itself. But we do grow some real red damn tomatoes such…
— Roy Blount, Jr.
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Amazingly, we’ve become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe.
— Joel Salatin
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My whole life has been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that let's you see…
— Bette Midler
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We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out…
— Natalie Goldberg
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Producing quality compost is the most important job on the organic farm. A lot of the problems I see on farms I visit could be…
— Eliot Coleman
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So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there…
— Terry Pratchett
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The garden is doing so well, we have so many greens and radishes that everyone is enjoying. Also, we are using one square as a…
— Mike Moreno
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The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without live stock; she…
— Albert Howard
Who Wrote These Compost Quotes
37 authors contributed a total of 39 Compost Quotes, led by these top contributors: