Leadership Quote by Michael Pollan

Artificial manures lead inevitably to artificial nutrition, artificial food, artificial animals and finally to artificial men and women.

— Albert Howard

“The mere phrase ‘artificial manure’ told the whole story.”

— Anthony Powell

Unable to function as plants, we must serve as manure.

— Edward Conze

“The same is true of the misfortune, failures, and disappointments of life. If we understand the importance of manure, we understand that nothing is…

— Ming-Dao Deng

“Even manure can accomplish great things when placed into the right environment.”

— Raymond C. Nolan

“When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one’s ignorance in the face of a…

— Michael Pollan

“the work of Sir Albert Howard (1873–1947) as well—an English botanist and organic pioneer who said that “the health of soil, plant, animal and…

— Judith D. Schwartz

“I read in one of the gardening books that manure was very good for soil, so I had a shitload delivered.”

— Kaaron Warren

“Manure grew the fodder for the cow that made that ice cream and fertilized the beets that gave us the sugar, my girl," Juniper…

— S.M. Stirling

“The men of today boast of the ever growing extent of the modifications they impose on the world, and the consequence is that everything…

— René Guénon

We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and…

— Wendell Berry