Compost Quote by 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 no longer love the soil. Landowners sell it, lease it, divide it into shares, prostitute it, bargain with it and treat it as…

— Tashunka Witko

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

— Thomas Jefferson

No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.

— Thomas Jefferson

Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.

— Henry Ford

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

— William Ellery Channing

The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his…

— Henry David Thoreau

There's no labor a man can do that's undignified-if he does it right.

— Bing Crosby

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.

— Orville Dewey

It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.

— Pope Leo XIII

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

— George Q Cannon

evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.

— Anonymous