Soil Quotes

837 Soil quotes by 607 unique authors

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the… — Robert Bringhurst
A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity. — Johan Huizinga
Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it… — Terry Eagleton
This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but… — Henryk Sienkiewicz
The fruit of our labors is sweet when the work is consecrated to God. But we have to be able to weather the conditions -… — Elaine L. Jack
He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not be afraid to… — Walter Benjamin
A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation… — George Will
Those who want success should think like a planter. They should understand that having the right seed is an essential key to success, but they… — Eric Thomas
I believe American manhood is too valuable to be sacrificed on foreign soil for foreign issues and causes. — J. Reuben Clark
Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil. — J. Frank Dobie
Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily… — Mary Wortley Montagu
By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to the… — Justus von Liebig
The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so… — Elizabeth Fry
Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring - that delicious commingling of the perfume of arbutus, the odor of pines, and… — Neltje Blanchan
The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek - topo for place and cosmos for… — Dolores LaChapelle
We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars. — Alan Chadwick
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled… — Ambrose Bierce
Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune. — Tony Snow
The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil… — Isidore of Seville
So rests the sky against the earth. The dark still tarn in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his wife's body in… — Dag Hammarskjold
Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil… — Plutarch
I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early… — Henry David Thoreau
I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree,… — Diego Rivera

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