Soil Quotes · Page 9

The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.

— John Lawson

Human beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in.

— Sara Jeannette Duncan

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.

— Benjamin Franklin

As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.

— Louis Bromfield

Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.

— Ai Weiwei

I knew God wanted to do much more...and he would, if we provided good soil in which he could work.

— Jim Cymbala

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

America is not an ethnostate. We are not rooted in blood and soil.

— Daniel Fried

No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love] There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin In the madness…

— Hozier

For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety,…

— James Fallows

The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The…

— Aeschylus

Beautiful rocks - beautiful grass Beautiful soil where they both combine Beautiful river - covering sky Never thought of possession, but all…

— Bruce Cockburn

You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she…

— Wovoka

Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to…

— Joseph Stalin

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives…

— Melina Mercouri

If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The axe and saw are insanely busy, chips are flying thick as snowflakes, and every summer thousands of acres of priceless forests,…

— John Muir

You say, 'The country is messed up.' That's like cursing the soil and the seed and the sunshine and the rain, which…

— Jim Rohn

This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains,…

— Abraham Verghese

it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice. They…

— Frances Trollope

Depression is a death within, a knowledge - terrifying - that you cannot resurrect yourself. Depression is loss of the vision that…

— Lauren Slater

You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the…

— Chinua Achebe

For the love of ammonites, man! That's just stupid. Why on earth would the Society need to protect unmarried women from bone-dry…

— Tessa Dare

History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products…

— Hugh Hammond Bennett

Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.

— John Holdren

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

— Vikrant Parsai

If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.

— Gustav Stresemann

“We are all plants in God's great garden. His knowledge is our soil. With it we can live forever. Without it we…

— Calvin W. Allison

“And roots, if they are to bear fruits, must be kept well in the soil of the land.”

— Pearl S. Buck

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

— Aldo Leopold

Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.

— James Russell Lowell

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.

— Martin Heidegger

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

— Charles Spurgeon

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

— Meister Eckhart

“Much like people, the seed always contained the tree. It just needed water and soil to release it.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Soil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development

— Jeffrey Sachs

Really, what [sea] ice does is it acts like a garden. … Losing that ice is like losing the soil in a garden.

— Paul Nicklen

Under natural conditions, the soil does not lose its fixed nitrogen.

— Fritz Haber