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“The professional will not tolerate disorder... He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.”

Want May Order Soil Disorder Tolerate Muse Carpet Threshold Gowns

Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also killing the 'good' insects whose function may be the essential one of breaking down organic matter and maintaining healthy soil?”

May Matter Environment Stage Healthy Essentials Function Killing Soil Reasonable Broads Destroying Breaking Down Insects Maintaining Spectrum Crops Insecticides Burrowing

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect, the 'good' and the 'bad,' to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil-all this though the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects. Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called 'insecticides,' but 'biocides.'”

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.”

Needs May Grows Sacrifice Blood Tears Flower Fine Flow India Soil

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we need food and must have it before we can eat-may seem absurd. It is absurd. It is nevertheless true.”

Needs Should May Seems Land Should Have Absurd Soil Agriculture Nevertheless Petroleum

Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“The garden rose may richly bloom In cultured soil and genial air, To cloud the light of Fashion's room Or droop in Beauty's midnight hair, In lonelier grace, to sun and dew The sweetbrier on the hillside shows Its single leaf and fainter hue, Untrained and wildly free, yet still a sister rose!”

May Stills Shows Light Rooms Sun Grace Air Fashion Hair Garden Rose Clouds Soil Leafs Midnight Dew Hue

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.”

Men May Ability Pieces Celebrate Soil Success In Life Toil

Book:Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden