Soil Quotes · Page 46

“Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly…

— Anonymous

I believe I've put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon. I hope so. I hate to feel transplanted.

— Anonymous

The garden rose may richly bloom In cultured soil and genial air, To cloud the light of Fashion's room Or droop in…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul.

— Pico Iyer

Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees,…

— C.D. Wright

Don't complain of the soil in which you were born, but rather of the plant you are living with.

— Vikrant Parsai

The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the…

— Albert Schweitzer

[Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.

— Edmund Burke

For mine is the old belief... There is a soil in every leaf.

— Maturin Murray Ballou

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

— Wangari Maathai

Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your…

— Honore de Balzac

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

— Simone Weil

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

— Aldo Leopold

Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and…

— Clive Anderson

“We come from dirt and we return to dirt.”

— Steven Magee

For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood.

— Michael Jeffery

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the…

— Wendell Berry

For the Flower to blossom, you need the right soil as well as the right seed. The same is true to cultivate…

— William Bernbach

But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue…

— Condoleezza Rice

Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like…

— Margaret Atwood

The clearest evidence that we are living beyond environmental means is the threat of dangerous climate change. The scale of this threat,…

— David Miliband

We must, therefore, coolly and objectively adopt the standpoint that it can certainly not be the intention of Heaven to give one…

— Adolf Hitler

The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, was a series of conflicts that became the last great struggle of religious wars in Europe. It…

— John Daniel

Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes…

— Terry Goodkind

Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but…

— John Dewey