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The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by soil bacteria into nitrate, a toxic and highly soluble chemical that can leach into groundwater or get washed into lakes, creating oxygenless dead zones.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Bacteria Broken Chemical Cotton Creating Dead Down Fertilizer Get Growing Highly Lakes Per Pounds Requiring Soil Some Toxic Usual Washed Way Zone

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Patents are like fertilizer. Applied wisely and sparingly, they can increase growth. But if you apply too many chemicals, or make patents too strong, then you can leach the land, making growth more difficult.

~Alex Tabarrok

Topics: Applied Apply Chemicals Difficult Fertilizer Growth Increase Land Like Make Making Many More Patents Strong Then Too Wisely You

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Many African smallholder farmers did not share in the 'green revolution' productivity gains driven by modern seeds and techniques, irrigation, and greater fertilizer use in Asia and Latin America in the 1960s.

~Arancha Gonzalez

Topics: African America Asia Did Driven Farmers Fertilizer Gains Greater Green Irrigation Latin Latin America Many Modern Productivity Revolution Seeds Share Techniques Use 1960S

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My mother's first career was physical therapy, her second was writer, and her third career was president of an organic fertilizer company. And she's driven a tank.

~Betsy Hodges

Topics: Career Company Driven Fertilizer First Her Mother Organic Physical President Second She Tank Therapy Third Writer

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People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

~Bill Gates

Topics: Buy Change Cheap Climate Climate Change Crops Difficult Enough Feed Fertilizer Going Grow Increasingly People Themselves Which Will

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Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

~Bill Gates

Topics: Crop Earth Every Fertilizer Five Higher Lives Made Out Owe People Possible Today Two

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Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and music is like the fertilizer for that.

~Burning Spear

Topics: Cannot Culture Dig Fertilizer Grass Grow Growing Like Music Roots Stop Will

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Farmers can't plant much more land because almost every accessible acre of arable soil is already in use. Nor can the use of fertilizer be increased: it is already being overused everywhere except some parts of Africa, and the runoff is polluting rivers, lakes, and oceans.

~Charles C. Mann

Topics: Accessible Africa Almost Because Being Every Everywhere Except Farmers Fertilizer Increased Lakes Land More Much Nor Oceans Parts Plant Polluting Rivers Soil Some Use

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The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

~David R. Brower

Topics: Big Chemicals Farming Fertilizer First First Place Fuel Knock Machines Made Mechanism More Out Pesticides Place Pour Work

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Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

~Dick Armey

Topics: Area Companies Everyone Farm Farmers Fertilizer Hurt Often Pay Programs Reductions Rural Rural Areas Tractor

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