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Fertilizer Quotes

Words on soil, seed, and what makes crops grow.

These quotes treat fertilizer as more than a farm input — it's infrastructure, in the same breath as the roads that carry it to Africa's farmers, and a stand-in for who gets to feed the world.

If women had equal access to fertilizer and modern farm machinery, developing countries would produce between 2.5-percent and 4-percent more food.

Quotes by Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks.

Quotes by Paul Gillmor

I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.

Quotes by Paul Dudley White

Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commerce.

Quotes by Norman Borlaug

Africa Quotes

I wish I had more hair on my head. Maybe if I sprinkled fertilizer on it, it would grow.

Quotes by Kylie Bax

Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.

Quotes by John Shimkus

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

Quotes by Dick Armey

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...

Quotes by Charles C. Mann

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.

Quotes by Burning Spear

America Quotes

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.

Quotes by Betsy Hodges

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.

Quotes by Arancha Gonzalez

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...

Quotes by Alex Shoumatoff

If you have the 'Total Information Awareness' project working, it might be relatively easy to find everyone who had bought more than a ton of fertilizer and 500 gallons of diesel in the last year, which would be a great...

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of quotes are collected on the Fertilizer quotes page?
This page gathers quotes that use fertilizer as a lens on agriculture, economics, and even security policy - from farmers depending on nitrogen for corn yields to broader arguments about food production. Some entries treat it literally as a farm input, while others use it to talk about infrastructure and access, like a line tied to Africa quotes about roads unlocking farm supply chains.
Why do people search for fertilizer-themed quotes?
Readers researching agricultural policy, sustainability, or rural development look for concise, quotable framing of why fertilizer matters - it's a recurring talking point in debates about crop yields, farm subsidies, and global food security.
One quote references buying large amounts of fertilizer and diesel in connection with a surveillance program - what's that about?
That line reflects post-9/11-era debates about data monitoring, where unusually large fertilizer and fuel purchases were floated as a pattern worth flagging for potential threats - it's included here because it shows how the same everyday commodity can carry very different connotations depending on context, from farming to security policy.
Do these quotes only discuss fertilizer as a farming input?
No - while most treat it as an agricultural necessity, one draws a connection between giving women farmers the same access men have to fertilizer and modern machinery, and measurable gains in food output across developing countries, tying fertilizer access to gender and development.
Are there other topic collections worth pairing with this one?
Readers often move between this page and America quotes for domestic farm-policy angles on the same underlying issue of crop nutrition and supply.

Others weigh nitrogen fertilizer's outsized role in corn country, and the surveillance-era irony of buying a ton of it. For related themes, see the Broken quotes.