Green Manure Crops

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

“A ship’s not a ship to me ‘til she gets her teeth into green water.”
—John Rhodes Sturdy, Canadian screenwriter. Richard Rossen. Evans (Walter Sande)

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

“Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat and potatoes, they cultivate literature, and fill a place in the Republic of Letters. Or they would fain write for fame merely, as others actually raise crops of grain to be distilled into brandy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)