Alex Shoumatoff Cotton Quotations
Cotton Quotes from:
- All Cotton Quotes
- Bill Robertson
- Cab Calloway
- Larry Harris
- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
- Brodie Croyle
- Eartha Kitt
- Gerald Prolman
- Johnny Cash
- Kathryn Lasky
- Martha Stewart
- Percy Sledge
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Robert Mooney
- Tadashi Yanai
- Willie Nelson
- A Hodge
- Albert Einstein
- Alex Shoumatoff
- Alexandra Adornetto
- Alice Walker
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Bacteria Quotes
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 or get washed into lakes, creating oxygenless dead zones.