#nature
"The virgin fertility of our soils and the vast amount of unskilled labor have been more of a curse than a blessing to agriculture. This exhaustive system for cultivation, the destruction of forest, the rapid and almost constant decomposition of organic matter, have made our agricultural problem one requiring more brains than of the North, East or West."
More by George Washington Carver
See allResonant Thoughts
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"The great difficulty and crowning glory of art is to paint, to draw, to write, naturally and simply."
— Auguste Rodin"And see, a kind, refined lady will devour the carcasses of these animals with full assurance that she is do…"
— Leo Tolstoy"The beauty, the spirit of Germany, its sun, moon, stars, rocks, seas and rivers can never be expressed this…"
— Caspar David Friedrich"There is constant sun, good weather all the time, the ocean like a slab of slate - there is nothing less pi…"
— Berthe Morisot"There is a place with four suns in the sky — red, white, blue, and yellow; two of them are so close togethe…"
— Carl Sagan": Isn’t that weird, we’ve made nature against the law. That’s how un-natural we’ve become."
— Bill Hicks
Related Thinkers
Related Topics
Deep Dives
- Larry Wall on nature
- Linus Torvalds on nature
- Vitruvius on nature
- Erik Naggum on nature
- N. R. Narayana Murthy on knowledge
- N. R. Narayana Murthy on leadership
- N. R. Narayana Murthy on books
- N. R. Narayana Murthy on creativity
- N. R. Narayana Murthy on education
- N. R. Narayana Murthy on friendship
- knowledge & Beauty
- knowledge & Change


