Green Manure Crops

Famous quotes containing the words green, manure and/or crops:

“by Spoon Rivergathering many a shell,
And many a flower and medicinal weed—
Shouting to the wooded hills, singing to the green valleys.
At ninety-six I had lived enough, that is all,
And passed to a sweet repose.”
—Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950)

“Wheat, sugarcane, chickpeas—all crops—must have manure to grow. Never forget it.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.

“She planted corn and left the rest
to elements, convinced that God
with giant faucets regulates the rain
and saves the crops from frost or foreign wind.”
—Richard Hugo (1923–1982)