Culture Quote by Andrew Nelson Lytle

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

— Friedrich Schiller

Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

— Alexander Pope

A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection.

— Elias Hasket Derby

A universal ethos cannot be thought the property of any one culture.

— Prince Hassan bin Talal

There is no gardening without humility

— Alfred Austin

Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

— Anonymous

A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.

— Johan Huizinga

Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.

— Roger L'Estrange

What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable…

— Jean Dubuffet

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

— Alfred Austin

The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible.

— Albert Howard