Quote#Nature
The virgin fertility of our soils and the vast amount of unskilled…
Quote byGeorge Washington Carver · 1864–1943
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Need of Scientific Agriculture in the South (Tuskegee Institute, 1902).
English (original)
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.
— George Washington Carver
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