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fertilizer

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One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid.

That which renders fertile; a general name for commercial manures, as guano, phosphate of lime, etc.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections. António Lobo Antunes

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

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

It is written in sacred scripture: where grass is growing you don't need fertilizer. Sicilian Proverb

Use fertilizer to change the course of nature. Sicilian Proverb

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