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Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
Samuel Beckett
Me
Together
Wonderful
Thought
First
Believe
Worms
Earth
Something
Drift
Shall
Through
Perhaps
Cliff
Surface
End
Just
In The End
Then
Acre
Separate
Sea
Ton
I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.
Pawan Kalyan
Agriculture
Half
Become
Dreamt
Never
Always
Owning
Wanted
Land
Acre
Farmer
Actor
Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.
John Muir
Citizen
Half
Dust
Hundred
One Act
States
Could
Take
Obtain
Well
Timber
Been
Dollars
Up
Stone
Any
Sixty
Which
Title
Ashes
Land
Might
Acre
Acres
Act
Paying
United
United States
Two
An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Better
Than
Acre
Utopia
I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.
Annie Dillard
Man
Mind
Met
Field
Grass
Shaken
Never
Identical
Forest
Acre
Who
Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney.
John Lasseter
Hundred
Characters
Entertaining
Animated
Most
His
Friends
Wood
Acre
Disney
Ever
Among
Beloved
Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat.
Alexandra Paul
Enough
Way
Would
Eat
Potatoes
Only
Pounds
Inefficient
Cows
Yield
Get
Same
Land
Acre
Meat
Graze
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
Red Auerbach
World
Worth
Promise
Performance
Acre
Whole
Apart from the most obvious cases, like the Oriental Bittersweet vine, escaped from private gardens and smothering the mountains one acre at a time, the most painful proof of man's destruction is not what you can see right in front of you; it's what you will never see again.
Wil S. Hylton
Time
You
Man
Destruction
Will
Mountains
Bittersweet
See
Proof
Cases
Never
Like
Most
Obvious
Private
Escaped
Front
Again
Apart
Acre
Painful
Oriental
Gardens
Vine
Right
At least five cents in every acre should be reserved for the construction of ponds to store rainwater.
M. S. Swaminathan
Construction
Every
Least
Five
Store
Cents
Acre
Should
Reserved
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.
Alex Shoumatoff
Broken
Soil
Down
Way
Nitrogen
Bacteria
Some
Per
Cotton
Pounds
Highly
Toxic
Dead
Chemical
Fertilizer
Get
Lakes
Acre
Creating
Requiring
Usual
Washed
Growing
Zone