Essentially, all life depends upon the soil

Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.

— Charles Kellogg

The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic to assume…

— Wendell Berry

Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust itsvitality. It needs…

— Elizabeth Drew

In Kenya, one of our biggest exports is coffee. Where do you grow coffee? You grow coffee in the land. To be able to…

— Wangari Maathai

Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of…

— Hugh Hammond Bennett

The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or…

— Wendell Berry

History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products of the…

— Hugh Hammond Bennett

The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that…

— Terry Eagleton

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion.…

— Wangari Maathai

There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth thistles as…

— Desmond Tutu

We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking…

— Ansel Adams

The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without live stock;…

— Anonymous

To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil, is enough…

— Henry A. Wallace

“Tourism, global warming and eradication of soil erosion causes have all been substantially enhanced through ecosystem study.”

— Justin Ascott

“Small societies are particularly vulnerable to disruption of key lifelines, such as trading relations, or to large perturbations like wars or natural disasters. Larger…

— David R. Montgomery