Albert Howard Quotes
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Artificial manures lead inevitably to artificial nutrition, artificial food, artificial animals and finally to artificial men and women.
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The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible.
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Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.
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The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without live stock; she always raises mixed crops; great pains are taken to preserve the soil and to prevent erosion; the mixed vegetable and animal wastes are converted into humus; there is no waste; the processes of growth and the processes of decay balance one another; ample provision is made to maintain large reserves of fertility; the greatest care is taken to store the rainfall; both plants and animals are left to protect themselves against disease.
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