Green Manure Crops

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

“The green trees when I saw them first through one of the gates transported and ravished me, their sweetness and unusual beauty made my heart to leap, and almost mad with ecstasy, they were such strange and wonderful things.”
—Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)

“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)