Crops Quote by Richard Mabey Download Open image “Weeds are out most successful cultivated crop.” — Richard Mabey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crops Nature Successful Weed
Some plants become weeds simply by virtue of their success rather than any other factor. You merely want less of them. — Monty Don Copy Share Image
Weeds play an important part in building soil fertility and in balancing the biological community . . . — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable. — George Sand Copy Share Image
Weeds are luckier than flowers because they are not killed for their beauties! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
An organism exists for no other reason than that it is able to... The wonderful, almost transcendent thing about life on earth is that… — Richard Mabey Copy Share Image
“In New York, it’s already clear that just a few months of neglect by city maintenance teams would lead to the streets becoming a… — Richard Mabey Copy Share Image
“Instead, the weeds are being read as a parable, a lesson that a monolithic, oil-based urban culture is unsustainable in the twenty-first century, and… — Richard Mabey Copy Share Image
Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature… — Richard Mabey Copy Share Image
“In 1546 a band of weevils were tried for damaging church vineyards in St Julien. Such trials were rife in the sixteenth century, and… — Richard Mabey Copy Share Image
“During the Second World War a giant puffball was found under an oak tree in Kent, and was suspected of being a new kind… — Richard Mabey Copy Share Image
Perhaps knowing one place intimately is to have a way of knowing all places. — Richard Mabey Copy Share Image
“Weeds – even many intrusive aliens – give something back. They green over the dereliction we have created. They move in to replace more… — Richard Mabey Copy Share Image
To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots. — Richard Mabey Copy Share Image
I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little enclaves of… — Antoine Predock Copy Share Image
Boys say they don't mind how you get your hair done. But then they leave you for someone with really great standard girl hair… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign'd, a… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Nuclear apocalypse-who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops. — David F. Houston Copy Share Image
One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise… — Emiliano Zapata Copy Share Image
We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
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