Soil Quotes · Page 21

Each child is like a flower in your garden. Everyone takes different sunlight, different type of soil, different love, pruning care.

— Eva Marcille

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by…

— Shmuel Yosef Agnon

This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them…

— Paul Robeson

The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full…

— Willa Cather

By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain…

— Anonymous

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

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she…

— Anonymous

Hell, I don't break the soil periodically to 'reaffirm my status'. I do it because archeology is still the most fun you…

— Kent V. Flannery

The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the…

— Wendell Berry

The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese…

— Ron Paul

To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there…

— Wendell Berry

“re: the US agriculture industry: " This puts us in the odd position of consuming fossil fuels --geologically one of the rarest…

— David R. Montgomery

A river finds its course with sureness, pushing aside whatever surface matter lies in its way, and as it gathers volume and…

— Laura Gilpin

You can't tear up everything just to get the dollar out of it without suffering as result. It is a travesty to…

— George Washington Carver

The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of…

— Adolf Hitler

Spiritually, trees play a unique role in the Jewish and Christian scriptures, from the Garden of Eden to the Cross of Christ.…

— Elizabeth A. Johnson

The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own…

— Asger Jorn

If I pleaded guilty to a mistake while I was home secretary, it wasn't that I didn't get tough - my God,…

— David Blunkett

What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it,…

— Robert Dallek

Whereas the chemico-chemists always find in industry a beautiful field of gold-laden soil, the physico-chemists stand somewhat farther off, especially those who…

— Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

[Donald] Trump, whether he designed it or not, happens to be the first thing in the news on UK soil the day…

— Rush Limbaugh

Real security, in other words, is inseparable from issues of energy policy; education; public health; preservation of soils, forests, and waters; and…

— David W. Orr

Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply.

— Henry Lindlahr

A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long… for weeding I use it delicately…

— Sara Bonnett Stein

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a…

— Will Durant

Everybody wants to reach the top of the mountain, but there is no growth at the peak. It is in the valley…

— Andy Andrews

That's a big concern right now with these storms coming on the heels of a very wet week. The soil is saturated,…

— Bryan Swanson

You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil, Lay down the wreck…

— Edward Everett

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is,…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Alan Chadwick's garden is a 'garden of the mind' as much as it is of the soil, and like all genuinely inspired…

— Page Smith

“grow best in a slightly acid soil with a pH of 6.0 to 6.5. The lab or extension office will be able…

— Maggie Oster

I couldn't have invented crisps. ... I don't really want to be known as the man who invented crisps. ... I invented…

— Noel Fielding

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which…

— Anonymous

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the…

— Herodotus

Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers…

— Carl von Clausewitz

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with…

— Alan Chadwick

The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us…

— Charles Eisenstein

It is the artists who make the true value of the world, though at times they may have to starve to do…

— Erica Jong

Egypt is practicing its very normal role on its soil and does not threaten anyone and there should not be any kind…

— Mohammed Morsi

Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life…

— Charles Dudley Warner