Arrogance is a weed which grows upon a dunghill; it is from the rankness of the soil that she has her height… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the same way that plants will not grow on soil that lacks some substance indispensable to their growth, so microbes, these… — Elie Metchnikoff Copy Share Image
Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,-the stronger ejecting the… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. Thats… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Humility is a fertile soil where spirituality grows and produces the fruit of inspiration to know what to do. It gives access… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy, has a social setting - in time, in a geographical location, in a political… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
No nation has been able to establish itself, as a nation in Palestine up to this day, no national union and no… — John William Dawson Copy Share Image
Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Texas is my mind's country, that place I most want to understand and record and preserve. Four generations of my people sleep… — Larry L. King Copy Share Image
There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
There are also kinds of water that cause death, as they run through harmful juices in the soil and become poisonous. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection. — John Powell Copy Share Image
The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Each of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
My kids look actually happy. And I learned early on that perfectionism and parenthood is a toxic combination for everybody involved. In… — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature? — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
