It may not be irrelevant to note that even very modest forms of life, like earthworms, dung beetles and fiddler crabs, have no trouble identifying the real problems they must deal with if they are to survive.
What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG!
Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint. . . and it's just a lot of inert matter, inert paint. Then I look back at the canvas, and it's not inert - it's active, moving and living.
Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.
the arabs are a backward people who eat nothing but camel dung.
All sorts of dung and compost contain some matter which, when mixed with the soil, ferments therein; and by such ferment dissolves, crumbles, and divides the earth very much. This is the chief and almost only use of dung. . . . This proves, that its (manure) use is not to nourish, but to dissolve, i. e. , divide the terrestrial matter, which affords nourishment to the Mouths of vegetable roots. His underestimate of the value of manure.
One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
The beast faith lives on its own dung.
