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• The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth is something to be respected and preserved, but dirt gets no respect. A farmer likes dirt. Suburbanites like to get rid of it. Dirt is the working layer of earth, and dealing with dirt is as much a part of farm life as dealing with manure. Neither is user-friendly but both are necessary.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Differences, Friendly, Earth

  E.L. Konigsburg (2010). “The View from Saturday”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Jacob: I've never seen so much manure. Wade: Baggage stock horses. They pack'em in 27 a car. Jacob: how do you stand the smell? Wade: what smell?

  Sara Gruen

  Horse, Smell, Car

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• Grief is like manure, if you spread it out it fertilizes, if you leave it in a big pile it smells like crap.

  Thomas Golden, Jr.

  Grief, Grieving, Smell

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• Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.

  Winston Churchill

  Spread, Ifs

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• The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

  Cyril Connolly

  Civilization, Luxury, Goal

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• When the spring comes, we will manure the plains of Kosova with the bones of Serbs, for we Albanians have suffered too much to forget.

  Isa Boletini

  Spring, Too Much, Bones

  "The search for Greater Albania" by Paulin Kola, Hurst, London, (p. 1), 2003.

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• I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

  John Chamberlain

  Art, Thinking, Junk

  "John Chamberlain, sculptor who used crushed-up cars, dies" by Alex Needham, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2011.

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• Wilbur burst into tears. "I dont want to die," he moaned. "I want to stay alive, right here in my comfortable manure pile with all my friends. I want to breathe the beautiful air and lie in the beautiful sun."

  E. B. White

  Beautiful, Lying, Air

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• No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Happiness, Sound, World

  "Villette". Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition,

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• If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I may withdraw at least a portion of my capital from the most unproductive part of my farm.

  David Ricardo

  Land, Pieces, May

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.42

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• We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.

  Joel Salatin

  Mean, Doe, Needs

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• Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them back on the soil, you couldn't feed more than 4 billion people. In addition, if all agriculture were organic, you would have to increase cropland area dramatically, spreading out into marginal areas and cutting down millions of acres of forests.

  Norman Borlaug

  Cutting, Animal, Agriculture

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• No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Summer, Morning, Mean

  "Villette". Book by Charlotte Bronte, Ch. XXII: The Letter, 1853.

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• They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Soil, Moveable Feast

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having been eaten by the cows. Here they find manure and an open space for the first year at least, when they are not choked by grass or weeds. In this way, evidently, many of these clumps of barberries are commenced.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Weed, Years, Apples

  David R. Foster, Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Thoreau's country: journey through a transformed landscape”, Harvard Univ Pr

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• Unable to function as plants, we must serve as manure.

  Edward Conze

  Plant, Function

  Edward Conze (1979). “Politics, people and places”

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• And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.... And as to you corpse, I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips — I reach to the polished breasts of melons. And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Sweet, Thinking

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, XLIX”

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• There are people who say, 'Oh every time Catholics make the sign of the cross they re-crucify Christ.' Look, that's what comes under the theological classification of happy horse manure! That's bologna, absolute bologna! They don't know anything about our religion, and I don't purport to know anything about theirs. I respect theirs, respect ours. When we make the sign of the cross, we are simply making a statement of faith. I believe in the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and I believe in the sign of the cross, because that is the sign of our salvation!

  John Corapi

  Horse, Father, Believe

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• Man takes a great deal of pains to heap up riches, and they are but like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.

  Matthew Henry

  Pain, Men, Riches

  "Job to Song of Solomon".

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• Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to pollute the water supply, nor depended on such quantities of commercial fertilizer. The genius of American farm experts is very well demonstrated here: they can take a solution and divide it neatly into two problems.

  Wendell Berry

  Animal, Two, Water

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.54, Counterpoint

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• If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

  Meryl Streep

  Success, Thinking, People

  Meryl Streep Barnard Graduation Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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• The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work horses, finally saddle horses. I grew up around, on, and under horses, fed them, shoveled their manure, emptied the mangers of corncobs.

  Paul Engle

  Horse, Father, Firsts

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• Money is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.

  J. Paul Getty

  Spread, Sells, Fertilizer

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• By raising tall trees for windbreaks, citrus underneath, and a green manure cover down on the surface, I have found a way to take it easy and let the orchard manage itself!

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Tree, Green, Way

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• My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.

  Denis Leary

  Horse, New York, Father

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