Fertilizer Quotes:

I look at failure as the fertilizer to success.

source: "Actor Thomas Q. Jones: Making it out of a small town and a positive perspective on failure". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Looks, Fertilizer

This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.

- Norman Borlaug

topic: Games, People, Forget, Fertilizer

Quotation Eartha Kitt I have used all the manure that has been thrown Quotes

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

- Bill Gates

source: "Bill Gates: here's my plan to improve our world - and how you can help". www.wired.com. November 12, 2013.

topic: Fertilizer

A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Wrestling, Stink, Faster, Never Surrender, Fertilizer

Earth is a living entity. And if it's a living organism, then we have to have a reverence for all life. Food should be local, organic rather than grown with chemical fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides.

- Satish Kumar

source: "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

topic: Earth, Pesticides, Chemicals, Living Organisms, Fertilizer

On a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye.

- Pliny the Elder

source: "Natural History".

topic: Eye, Farming, Masters, Fertilizer, Farming And Farmers

The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

topic: Garden, Land, Pieces, Fertilizer

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

topic: Miracle, Doe, Littles, Fertilizer

Since chemical fertilizer burns out the soil organic matter, other farmers struggle with tilth, water retention, and basic soil nutrients. The soil gets harder and harder every year as the chemicals burn out the organic matter, which gives the soil its sponginess. One pound of organic matter holds four pounds of water. The best drought protection any farmer can acquire is more soil organic matter.

- Joel Salatin

topic: Struggle, Years, Land, Burn Out, Fertilizer

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer

- Alfred de Musset

topic: Art, Blood, Water, Fertilizer, Motherland

Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.

- Barbara Johnson

source: Barbara Johnson (1995). “Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy!”, W Publishing Group

topic: Inspirational, Jobs, Valleys, Fertilizer

Fertilizer played a greater role in this case than computers.

- Mike Godwin

topic: Roles, Computer, Internet, Fertilizer

I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

- Eartha Kitt

source: FaceBook post by Eartha Kitt from Sep 14, 2011

topic: Stronger, Used, Thrown, Manure, Fertilizer

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

- George Meredith

source: George Meredith (1862). “Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads”, p.203

topic: Garden, Smell, Decay, Desolation, Fertilizer

Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

topic: Nature, Hate, Garden, Manure, Fertilizer

Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.

- John Shimkus

topic: Country, Illinois, Keys, Fertilizer, Nitrogen

The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.

- Elizabeth von Arnim

source: Elizabeth Arnim, Elizabeth Von Arnim (2005). “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”, p.219, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Form, Manure, Fertilizer, Compost

Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

- Dick Armey

topic: Hurt, Rural Areas, Pay, Tractors, Fertilizer

When tending a vast and beautiful garden, you have to plant many seeds, never knowing ahead of time which ones will germinate, which will produce the most glorious flowers, which will bear the sweetest fruit. A good gardener plants them all, tends and nurtures them, and wishes them well. Optimism is the best fertilizer.

- Kevin J. Anderson

source: Kevin J. Anderson, Neil Peart (2012). “Clockwork Angels: The Novel”, p.8, ECW Press

topic: Beautiful, Flower, Garden, Fertilizer, Ahead Of Time

However small your garden, you must provide for two of the serious gardener's necessities, a tool shed and a compost heap. A wire bin takes up negligible space and can be concealed by shrubs, or you can make a small pit into which you sweep leaves and clippings, but try not to fall into it.

- Ann Scott

topic: Fall, Garden, Two, Fertilizer, Shrubs

Coral reefs are under assault. They are rapidly being degraded by human activities. They are over-fished, bombed and poisoned. They are smothered by sediment, and choked by algae growing on nutrient-rich sewage and fertilizer run-off. They are damaged by irresponsible tourism and are being severely stressed by the warming of the world's oceans. Each of these pressures is bad enough in itself, but together, the cocktail is proving lethal.

- Klaus Topfer

topic: Running, Ocean, Animal, Fertilizer, Coral Reefs

Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture - from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding.

- Nina Fedoroff

topic: Race, Agriculture, Three, Mechanization, Fertilizer

I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.

- Paul Dudley White

topic: Wish, Tobacco, Fertilizer

What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before. Since the cost of fertilizer, relative to the resultant gain in crop sales, is lower than that of any other economic input, and since the Land Bank pays the farmer for acreage not in crops, the new technology pays him well. The cost-in environmental degradation-is borne by his neighbors in town who find their water polluted. The new technology is an economic success-but only because it is an ecological failure.

- Barry Commoner

topic: Technology, Land, Water, Fertilizer, Economic Success

I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.

- Brandon Sanderson

source: Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.255, Macmillan

topic: Thinking, Want, Stuck, Fertilizer

Don't be afraid to write crap - it makes the best fertilizer. The more you write the better your chances of growing something wonderful.

- Pat Pattison

source: Pat Pattison (2010). “Writing Better Lyrics”, p.291, Writer's Digest Books

topic: Writing, Growing, Chance, Fertilizer

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

- David R. Brower

topic: Agriculture, Machines, Fuel, Pesticides, Fertilizer

Another agricultural trend of growing concern is the increased nutrient content of coastal waters resulting from fertilizer runoff in agricultural regions. Augmented by urban sewage discharge in some situations, this results in huge algal blooms, which, as they die and decay, deplete the oxygen content in the water, leading to the death of the fish.

- Lester R. Brown

source: Lester R. Brown, Michael Renner (2014). “Vital Signs 1999-2000: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future”, p.25, Routledge

topic: Fertilizer, Discharge, Sewage

Well, I certainly don't," said Percy sanctimoniously. "I shudder to think what the state of my in-tray would be if I was away from work for five days." "Yeah, someone might slip dragon dung in it again, eh, Perce?" said Fred. "That was a sample of fertilizer from Norway!" said Percy, going very red in the face. "It was nothing personal!" "It was," Fred whispered to Harry as they got up from the table. "We sent it.

- J. K. Rowling

source: J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”, p.62, Pottermore

topic: Thinking, Dragons, Funny Harry Potter, Fertilizer, Trays

To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.

- Hermann Joseph Muller

topic: Science, Men, Use, Fertilizer

The women of the United States are nothing but brood sows, having sons to be put into the army and made into fertilizer.

- Kate Richards O'Hare

topic: Son, Army, United States, Fertilizer, Having A Son

One thing is all things. To resolve one matter, one must resolve all matters. Changing one thing changes all things. Once I made the decision to sow rice in the fall, I found that I could also stop transplanting, and plowing, and applying chemical fertilizers, and preparing compost, and spraying pesticides.

- Masanobu Fukuoka

source: Masanobu Fukuoka (1987). “The Natural Way of Farming: The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy”, Japan Publications (USA)

topic: Pesticides, Fertilizer

I wish I had more hair on my head. Maybe if I sprinkled fertilizer on it, it would grow

- Kylie Bax

topic: Hair, Wish, Grows, Fertilizer

Weeds don't need planting in well-drained soil; they don't ask for fertilizer or bits of rag to scare away the birds. They come without invitation; and they don't take the hint when you want them to go. Weeds are nobody's guests: More like squatters.

- Norman Nicholson

topic: Weed, Bird, Scare, Squatters, Fertilizer

I am really concerned about all of the chemicals. Global warming is another huge one, but the amount of chemicals being used in like laundry detergents and fertilizers is concerning.

- Mason Jennings

source: Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Global Warming, Laundry, Chemicals, Laundry Detergent, Fertilizer

I want my ashes either with some really good primo or as some fertilizer for plants.

- Tommy Chong

topic: Ashes, Want, Plant, Fertilizer

We all have unfair situations and things we don't like. You can get bitter, discouraged and sour, or you can see it as fertilizer and say, “ This difficulty is not going to defeat me; it's going to promote me. It's not going to hinder me; it's going to help me.” Don't just go through it, grow through it.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Helping, Bitter, Defeat, Fertilizer

My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something. The Major had often wondered how a wailing rendition of 'Greensleeves' would encourage greater raspberry production but Alice insisted that it worked far better than chemical fertilizers, and she did produce several kinds of fruit in pie-worthy quantitites. No sense of pitch, but plenty of enthusiasm, he added.

- Helen Simonson

topic: Music, Garden, Thinking, Raspberries, Fertilizer

The central industry of modern civilisation, tending, because of its control over materials, to spread into and ultimately incorporate older industries such as mining, smelting, oil- refining, textiles, rubber, building, and even agriculture in respect to fertilizers and food processing.

- John Desmond Bernal

source: John Desmond Bernal (1965). “Science in history”

topic: Oil, Agriculture, Textiles, Fertilizer, Mining

Indeed, "Hera said. ―Porphyrion, the strongest of his kind. Gaea needed a great deal of power to raise him again —my power. For weeks I‘ve grown weaker as my essence was used to grow him a new form." ―So you‘re like a heat lamp,"Leo guessed. ―Or fertilizer.

- Rick Riordan

topic: Essence, Lamps, Gaea, Fertilizer, Hera

Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.

- Antonio Lobo Antunes

source: "Knowledge of Hell (2008)". Book by Antonio Lobo Antunes, 2008.

topic: Garden, Asylums, Cabbage, Injection, Fertilizer

Good Lord, who spread the Daimon fertilizer around? They're cropping up like a bad horror flick. (Tabitha)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

topic: Horror, Lord, Spread, Fertilizer

In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth Which is already flesh, fur and faeces, Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Fall, Men, Fire, Open Fields, Fertilizer

You can clear the land, plow the field, spread the fertilizer, and plant the corn. But you cannot make it rain. You cannot prevent an early frost. You cannot determine exactly what will happen in your life. The rain may or may not fall, but one thing is certain: you will get a harvest only if you planted something in the field. It's important to do everything in our power to ensure our success, but we also need to let the universe take its course.

- Melody Beattie

source: Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

topic: Rain, Fall, Land, Fertilizer

This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's rosebushes.

- Tamora Pierce

source: Tamora Pierce (2015). “The Realms of the Gods”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

topic: Two, May, Chance, Fertilizer

Down in Texas, Rick Perry announced he will not run for reelection. He said 'I executed one last woman, that fertilizer plant exploded, I returned abortions to back alleys where it belongs, my work here is done.' I think that's what he said, he was chewing a crayon.

- Bill Maher

topic: Running, Thinking, Texas, Fertilizer, Back Alleys

Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal waste of costly fuel and excellent fertilizer, but also the complete destruction of physical historical data. On the other hand, the custom of embalming and mummification is most praiseworthy and highly to be recommended.

- Earnest Hooton

topic: Hands, Data, Historical, Fertilizer, Embalming

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.