Crop Quotes

166 Crop quotes by 143 unique authors

The legendary tumbleweed is really a nurse crop that protects the growth of prairie grasses under its shade, and then sacrifices itself and blows away. — Antoine Predock
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to… — Wendell Berry
The heavier crop is ever in others' fields. — Unknown Author
One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all… — Emiliano Zapata
To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that… — Curtis Armstrong
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hungry children and a crop in the field. — Kenny Rogers
Weeds are out most successful cultivated crop. — Richard Mabey
At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the… — Cary Fowler
As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields… — Nina Fedoroff
It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces,… — Lawrence Hargrave
Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing… — Richard Hell
Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but… — Aldo Leopold
I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as… — Miroslav Vitous
Imagine your mind as a garden and thoughts as the seeds you plant. Habitual negative, unhealthy, self-critical thoughts produce the weeds and thistles of depression,… — Sue Thoele
Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn. — Miguel de Cervantes
So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop… — William Shakespeare
And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care. — Edmund Spenser
Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also… — Rachel Carson
War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a… — Kenneth Kaunda
What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before. Since the cost… — Barry Commoner
The prairies were dust. Day after day, summer after summer, the scorching winds blew the dust and the sun was brassy in a yellow sky.… — Rose Wilder Lane
Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture… — Allan Savory
All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer. — Marcus Aurelius
Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that… — William Faulkner
Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of things. — Saul Bellow

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