Green Manure Crops

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

    “It was a green world,
    Unchanging holly with the curled
    Points, cypress and conifers,
    All that through the winter bears
    Coarsened fertility against the frost.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “Wheat, sugarcane, chickpeas—all crops—must have manure to grow. Never forget it.”
    —Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.

    “Listen, that’s the one that done it. The dusters. They started it anyways. Blowin’ like this year after year. Blowin’ the land away. Blowin’ the crops away. Blowin’ us away now.”
    —Nunnally Johnson (1897–1977)