Soil Quotes · Page 6

I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.

— Mike Lee

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn…

— Rene Redzepi

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S.…

— Chester W. Nimitz

We don't like to be forced off our own tour, onto foreign soil, to qualify for our Olympic teams. That's ridiculous.

— Karch Kiraly

You know your gut instincts are spot on about a person when you can also detect a water source in the soil…

— Dane Cook

Nothing quite beats playing on home soil in front of a home crowd.

— Johanna Konta

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

— Dan Barber

I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators…

— Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait…

— S. I. Hayakawa

No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind of growth.

— Ha Jin

“Going in the company of negative people is just like having thick muddy soil underfoot... They will only draw you back if…

— Israelmore Ayivor

In Aleppo we had the missile itself, and the material, and the sample from the sand, from the soil, and samples from…

— Bashar al-Assad

An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful services, and…

— Tim Benton

At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history…

— Olympia Snowe

... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement…

— Leonardo da Vinci

It is a fact that the ecological devastation of the planet can be traced to the consumption of meat and dairy, which…

— Sharon Gannon

I wondered why it had to be so poisonous. Oleanders could live through anything, they could stand heat, drought, neglect, and put…

— Janet Fitch

May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural…

— Gaylord Nelson

I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging... This confers the tone and bearing…

— Walter Benjamin

For a hundred and fifty years, in the pasture of dead horses, roots of pine trees pushed through the pale curves of…

— Donald Hall

All sorts of dung and compost contain some matter which, when mixed with the soil, ferments therein; and by such ferment dissolves,…

— Jethro Tull

We will have no mercy for white people regarding the land, they cannot own our soil.

— Robert Mugabe

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

— Wendell Berry

In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up…

— Will Rogers

If the soil were as good as the harbors, it would be a blessing.

— Jacques Cartier

Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.

— Joe Biden

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under…

— Walt Whitman

I believe American manhood is too valuable to be sacrificed on foreign soil for foreign issues and causes.

— J. Reuben Clark

Naturally healthy soil can sustain coffee crops for generations to come. All of this contributes to the quality of the bean.

— Rohan Marley

The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.

— Henry David Thoreau

Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.

— William Wordsworth

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

— Jim Rohn

In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . .

— Edward Gibbon

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

— Anonymous

The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.

— William McKinley

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

— Rabindranath Tagore