Art Quote by Ambrose Bierce

“In Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, geomorphologist David Montgomery offers numerous cautionary tales of kingdoms, cultures, and empires that squandered their soil and found…

— Judith D. Schwartz

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

— J. Frank Dobie

“… matter out of place, as a famous anthropologist once described dirt.”

— Howard Jacobson

I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities…

— Aime Cesaire

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the…

— Plutarch

“For matter out of place, as a famous anthropologist once described dirt.”

— Howard Jacobson

We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl,…

— Erasmus Darwin

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world.

— Henry Miller

Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any…

— Thomas Browne

Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their…

— William Wallace

As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.

— Willie Morris