Green Manure Crops

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

“a shiver, a delight
that what is passing
is here, as if
a snake went by, green in the
gray leaves.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

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