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 Copy Share Image
To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Unlike the urban development that I see taking over and swallowing up our precious soil, when we interact with our environment in… — Cory Trepanier Copy Share Image
At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ… — John Gabriel Stedman Copy Share Image
The carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake… — Alison Fell Copy Share Image
Our akhara was very basic. It was just a little opening next to where the animals were tied. We had to first… — Geeta Phogat Copy Share Image
The moment we turn over the soil we start poisoning it and we go on poisoning it all the way through... and… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
You grow great crops in great soil. And the soil is the commons. Increasingly, we have monopolistic companies that try to take… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The best thing for you to do is shop at your local farmer's market and support the organic growers who are there.… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of… — James Allen Copy Share Image
After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder; one… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
As we maintain the vigil of peace, we must remember that justice is a vigil, too - a vigil we must keep… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Our artists and writers should not be forced like soldiers to die on foreign soil or to return wounded and crawl famously… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon. So long… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
The fact that we haven't faced another major terrorist attack on American soil since Sept. 11 is a very significant achievement, and… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Africa is the most weathered continent in the world; 75 percent of its soil has been degraded. You don't just bring that… — Howard Graham Buffett Copy Share Image
But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm! The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
I see the day in our own lifetime that reverence for the natural systems, the oceans, the rainforests, the soil, the grasslands,… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Today the intelligence of the world denies the miraculous. Ignorance is the soil of the supernatural. The foundation of Christianity has crumbled,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority… — Pierre Daninos Copy Share Image
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world, with clean air, water, soil and power – economically, equitably, ecologically… — William McDonough Copy Share Image