Composting Quotes

I'd like to live off-grid.

Restaurants should be forced to recycle their leftovers for animal consumption - and should create fewer leftovers in the first place.

I have been growing vegetables since I was a boy. When I was about 17 I was the only one of five children living at home. My parents were ill and I took over the vegetable garden and I have had one ever since.

We are big composters. We compost everything - bread, tea bags, coffee grounds. I even dump out my old coffee in the garden. We keep a mixing bowl on the counter and just fill it up as the day goes along, then dump it in the mulch pile before dinner and wash it with the dinner dishes.

Spreading manure is a great way of bringing yourself down to earth.

When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.

I can never waste water. If I cannot drink it I will use it to water the plants and I will never waste food. If it is inedible it goes on the compost heap.

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.

We can't have landfills forever, and we can't ask others to accept our trash.

Agricultural husbandry essentially maintains the balance of bound nitrogen.

I've become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle.

When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.

I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner.

How my son discovered vegetables was from growing them in the garden.

Garbage removal is a citizen responsibility.

Tomorrow composts today.

You should concentrate on the segregation of waste, especially kitchen waste. Only after segregation the waste becomes useful and it can be recycled.

… a gospel of dirt

Don't forget, we have a disposal problem.

The organic gardener does not think of throwing away the garbage. She knows that she needs the garbage. She is capable of transforming the garbage into compost, so that the compost can turn into lettuce, cucumber, radishes, and flowers again...With the energy of mindfulness, you can look into the garbage and say: I am not afraid. I am capable of transforming the garbage back into love.

We need to throw away less, recycle a lot more and turn much of the rest into energy.

The pleasure of the mulch pile is incomprehensible. I wouldn't care if they just hauled the mulch to the landfill somewhere. Obviously, grass clippings are biodegradable, but when they're bunched together at the landfill, they become badly influenced by other garbage.

A big part of green tech will be organisms that eat waste.