“Since chemical fertilizer burns out the soil organic matter, other farmers struggle with tilth, water retention, and basic soil nutrients. The soil gets harder and harder every year as the chemicals burn out the organic matter, which gives the soil its sponginess. One pound of organic matter holds four pounds of water. The best drought protection any farmer can acquire is more soil organic matter.” GivingYearsMatterWaterStruggleFourLandHarderProtectionSoilAcquirePoundsChemicalsFarmersDroughtBurn OutNutrientsFertilizerRetention Author:Joel Salatin
“The first thing I did when I was forty years old, I put handcuffs on and I jumped off Alcatraz prison and swam to San Francisco handcuffed. That made national publicity. Then, there were three or four years where I would do more difficult feats. Another birthday I towed a thousand pound boat across the Golden Gate. On my 65th Birthday I towed 65 boats a mile and a half in Tokyo. On my 70th Birthday I towed 70 boats with 70 people in it with my feet and hands tied a mile and a half in Long Beach.... My next Birthday I will be 93. I'm gonna tow my wife across the bathtub.” PeopleYearsFirstsLongMadeHandsThreeNextDifficultHalfFourWifeFeetThousandPrisonMy WifeMilesGoldenBoatBeachFortyPoundsGatesFour YearsTiedSan FranciscoPublicityFeatsTokyoBathtubsHandcuffsTowHands TiedForty Years OldLong BeachAlcatraz Author:Jack LaLanne
“If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of weight in your casting hand - much of the time at arm's length - all the time you fish. Try carrying a pound of butter around that way for four or five hours.” IfsWayTryingMeanTwoHandsHoursLinesFiveFourSeaArmsSixRiversWeightFishesNineBoatLakesFishingPoundsLengthCasting Author:Ted Trueblood
“Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men.” MenTwoThreeCan DoFourWonderfulHundredArmyChecksUrgesPoundsWonderful ThingsWhipsFierySass Author:Gwendolyn Brooks
“Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.” WayGivingLittlesFourFoodDemandCookingCooksPoundsEggsCulinaryMore TimeFacilitateConcealingFryingCarp Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
“Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!” HoursFourGoldPoundsTake MeBack In The Day Author:Mr. T
“When you gain weight, for every pound that you gain, it adds four pounds of stress on your knees. So if you gain five pounds, you've got 20 pounds of stress on your knees. So that's why I'm extremely careful with my portions and my workout, because I can't be overweight.” IfsI CanFiveFourGainsWeightStressAddCarefulKneesPoundsPortionsWorkoutBecause I CanOverweight Author:Richard Simmons
“I have physical problems with listening to reggae. It's weird, I don't know why. It doesn't fit the way my heart pounds, and I feel very bad when I hear it. I have a neighbor--she's a waitress who comes home every night at four in the morning and she plays reggae very loud. I hate that. I can't sleep and I can't wake up either to that music.” KnowsWayFeelsHeartI CanPlayProblemHomeNightHateSleepMorningFourListeningMy HeartFitI HateWake UpNeighborLoudPoundsComing HomeEvery NightWaitressReggaeCan't SleepI Can't Sleep Author:Nina Persson
“The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons.” HumansThreeBrainFourBillionsComplexityPoundsHuman BrainNeurons Author:Gerald Fischbach