Fertilizer Quotes
51 quotes by 49 authors
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Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.
— Dick Armey
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Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
— Barbara Johnson
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Coral reefs are under assault. They are rapidly being degraded by human activities. They are over-fished, bombed and poisoned. They are smothered by sediment, and…
— Klaus Topfer
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The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Since chemical fertilizer burns out the soil organic matter, other farmers struggle with tilth, water retention, and basic soil nutrients. The soil gets harder and…
— Joel Salatin
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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
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You can't tear up everything just to get the dollar out of it without suffering as result. It is a travesty to burn our woods…
— George Washington Carver
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Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling…
— Paul Gillmor
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Well, I certainly don't," said Percy sanctimoniously. "I shudder to think what the state of my in-tray would be if I was away from work…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's rosebushes.
— Tamora Pierce
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Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds.…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind…
— Alfred de Musset
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Good Lord, who spread the Daimon fertilizer around? They're cropping up like a bad horror flick. (Tabitha)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Indeed, "Hera said. ―Porphyrion, the strongest of his kind. Gaea needed a great deal of power to raise him again —my power. For weeks I‘ve…
— Rick Riordan
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I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.
— Brandon Sanderson
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To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as…
— Hermann Joseph Muller
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Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents too strong, then…
— Alex Tabarrok
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.
— Bill Gates
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People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.
— Bill Gates
Who Wrote These Fertilizer Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 51 Fertilizer Quotes, led by these top contributors: