Albert Howard famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible.
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The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without live stock; she always raises mixed crops; great pains are taken to preserve the soil and to prevent erosion; the mixed vegetable and animal wastes are converted into humus; there is no waste; the processes of growth and the processes of decay balance one another; ample provision is made to maintain large reserves of fertility; the greatest care is taken to store the rainfall; both plants and animals are left to protect themselves against disease.
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Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.
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Artificial manures lead inevitably to artificial nutrition, artificial food, artificial animals and finally to artificial men and women.
-- Albert Howard
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.
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Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.
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Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy.
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The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible.
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If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.
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