Book: The life and extraordinary adventures of private Ivan Chonkin

- Right, Ivan, ' he said, moving up a stool and continuing the conversation, - we used to be crap with a sort of disgust, as if it were something bad. But if you look is maybe the most valuable substance on earth because our whole life is shit and shit again leaves.
- In what sense? - politely asked Chonkin, looking hungrily at the eggs cooling off, but not daring to get to her before the owner.
- And what you want - he developed his idea Gladyshev, not noticing the impatient guest. - Judge for yourself. For a good harvest it is necessary to fertilize the land with shit. Out of shit grows grass, grains and vegetables that we eat and the animals. Animals give us milk, meat, wool and everything else. We all consumed again and translate shit. Here and there, as if to say, the cycle of shit in nature.