Fertilizer Quotes

• This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.

  Norman Borlaug

  Games, People, Problem

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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

  Two, People, Earth

  "Bill Gates: here's my plan to improve our world - and how you can help". www.wired.com. November 12, 2013.

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• A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

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• Earth is a living entity. And if it's a living organism, then we have to have a reverence for all life. Food should be local, organic rather than grown with chemical fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides.

  Satish Kumar

  Earth, Pesticides, Chemicals

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• On a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye.

  Pliny the Elder

  Eye, Farming, Masters

  "Natural History".

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• The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Garden, Land, Pieces

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• Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Miracle, Doe, Littles

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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 harder every year as the chemicals burn out the organic matter, which gives the soil its sponginess. One pound of organic matter holds four pounds of water. The best drought protection any farmer can acquire is more soil organic matter.

  Joel Salatin

  Struggle, Years, Land

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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 of fertilizer

  Alfred de Musset

  Art, Blood, Water

  Alfred de Musset, Michael Feingold (1993). “Fantasio and other plays”

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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

  Inspirational, Jobs, Growing

  Barbara Johnson (1995). “Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy!”, W Publishing Group

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• Fertilizer played a greater role in this case than computers.

  Mike Godwin

  Roles, Computer, Internet

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  I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

  Eartha Kitt

  Stronger, Used, Thrown

  FaceBook post by Eartha Kitt from Sep 14, 2011

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• I look at failure as the fertilizer to success.

  Thomas Jones

  Looks

  "Actor Thomas Q. Jones: Making it out of a small town and a positive perspective on failure". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

  George Meredith

  Death, Nature, Garden

  George Meredith (1862). “Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads”, p.203

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• Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Nature, Hate, Garden

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• Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.

  John Shimkus

  Country, Illinois, Keys

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• The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Form, Compost, Greater

  Elizabeth Arnim, Elizabeth Von Arnim (2005). “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”, p.219, Cosimo, Inc.

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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

  Hurt, Rural Areas, Pay

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• When tending a vast and beautiful garden, you have to plant many seeds, never knowing ahead of time which ones will germinate, which will produce the most glorious flowers, which will bear the sweetest fruit. A good gardener plants them all, tends and nurtures them, and wishes them well. Optimism is the best fertilizer.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Beautiful, Flower, Garden

  Kevin J. Anderson, Neil Peart (2012). “Clockwork Angels: The Novel”, p.8, ECW Press

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• However small your garden, you must provide for two of the serious gardener's necessities, a tool shed and a compost heap. A wire bin takes up negligible space and can be concealed by shrubs, or you can make a small pit into which you sweep leaves and clippings, but try not to fall into it.

  Ann Scott

  Fall, Garden, Two

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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 choked by algae growing on nutrient-rich sewage and fertilizer run-off. They are damaged by irresponsible tourism and are being severely stressed by the warming of the world's oceans. Each of these pressures is bad enough in itself, but together, the cocktail is proving lethal.

  Klaus Topfer

  Running, Ocean, Animal

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• Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture - from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Race, Agriculture, Events

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• I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.

  Paul Dudley White

  Wish, Tobacco

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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 of fertilizer, relative to the resultant gain in crop sales, is lower than that of any other economic input, and since the Land Bank pays the farmer for acreage not in crops, the new technology pays him well. The cost-in environmental degradation-is borne by his neighbors in town who find their water polluted. The new technology is an economic success-but only because it is an ecological failure.

  Barry Commoner

  Technology, Land, Water

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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

  Thinking, Want, Stuck

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.255, Macmillan

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