Green Manure Crops

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

“An honest God is the noblest work of man.”
—Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899)

“Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“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)