Green Manure Crops

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

“When the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“I see that I must get a few dollars together presently to manure my roots.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“That’s funny. That plane’s dustin’ crops where they ain’t no crops.”
—Ernest Lehman (b.1920)