Compost Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his…

— Henry David Thoreau

The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Men can labor to make sense out of single steps toward the goal without ever pausing to reflect that the goal itself is ludicrous.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot…

— Charles Darwin

For when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop...

— George Q Cannon

There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The creation of new capital always... releases... labor. Its actual effect [though] is not to make jobs scarce, but to free men's labor for…

— Frederic Bastiat

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.

— Orville Dewey

The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.

— Thomas Jefferson

“All men labor under some impingements on their freedom; none is absolutely at liberty.”

— George Saunders

Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if…

— Orville Dewey

An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable…

— Thomas Jefferson

“War did not just level, it plowed the field, raising the muck and sinking the stubble.”

— Neal Stephenson

Easy for you to say. You’re the one who got plowed. I was doing the plowing.

— J. Lynn

“There is very little uglier than plowed snow. The roads are clear, though, and all the sidewalks are tinted blue from the salt. It…

— Dot Hutchison