“The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.” ChildrenEarthNightPoorMorningRichGroupsStreetsFlowerGrewHealthyAppearanceHungryNakedDirtyDirtNourishmentFaded Book:The Maxim Gorky MEGAPACK®: 61 Classic Novels and Stories Source: The Maxim Gorky MEGAPACK®: 61 Classic Novels and Stories
“And besides; the problem of land, at its worst, is a bye one; distribute the earth as you will, the principal question remains inexorable, Who is to dig it? Which of us, in brief word, is to do the hard and dirty work for the rest, and for what pay?” HardProblemEarthPayLandWorstRemainsDirtyPrincipalByeInexorableDirty Work Book:Sesame and Lilies, etc Source: Sesame and Lilies, etc
“Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.” PeopleTodayEarthInternationalFlightDirtyPermacultureFingernails Author:Bill Mollison