Pest Control Quotes

“1. Insects and fungi are not the real cause of plant diseases but only attack unsuitable
varieties or crops imperfectly grown. Their true role is that of censors for pointing
out the crops that are improperly nourished and so keeping our agriculture up to the
mark. In other words, the pests must be looked upon as Nature's professors of
agriculture: as an integral portion of any rational system of farming.
2. The policy of protecting crops from pests by means of sprays, powders, and so
forth is unscientific and unsound as, even when successful, such procedure merely
preserves the unfit and obscures the real problem -- how to grow healthy crops." (An Agricultural Testament)”
― Sir Albert Howard

“She said how ludicrous it was to plant huge fields of the same kinds of crops, guaranteeing pests -- and the need to use chemicals -- when, back home, the same crop was planted every seven rows. Mixing things up meant that a pest would starve before reaching the next row it needed to eat.”
― Peter Denton, Live Close to Home

“I killed a fruit fly that wouldn't get out of my face by clapping my hands on it. In its last act of kamikaze defiance, the fly hurled its fading carcass into a coffee I had only half-drunk and was enjoying. I had to pour it down the drain. F***er.”
― Stewart Stafford

“As I learn about pest control, it reminds me of international relations - fraught with unintended consequences and shifting alliances and deals, a place where the enemy of my enemy is my friend and has always been my friend and will always be my friend, until the next shift in the balance of power when it's suddenly the other way around. The whole thing is a delicate dance (...)”
― Pete Brown

“,Nicholas C Nelson was born in Brooklyn, New York. His parents moved the family to Palm Beach County, when he was three years old, and he considers Florida his home. Growing up, Mr. Nelson’s grandfather managed a local pest control company in the area. His uncle owned a pest control company as well—Coral Springs Pest Control—in Broward County. Mr. Nelson would grow up to become president of Guaranteed Pest Control & Fertilization.”
― Nicholas C Nelson

“I’ll take care of them. I do a bit of pest control, on the side.’ ‘Didn’t you say you do plastering on the side?’ He cocked an eyebrow. ‘There’s a lot of “on the side” when you live on an island.”
― C J Cooke

“The forecast today is sunny, with a chance of bed bugs!”
― JmBaumbach