Soil Quotes
837 quotes by 607 authors
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Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one…
— Brent Scowcroft
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Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence.…
— Yogaswami
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It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing…
— Cesar Chavez
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This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and…
— Paul Robeson
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Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
— Daniel Libeskind
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Definitely very proud, very honoured to be Canadian. To be able to represent your country in Canada and win a gold medal on home soil…
— Meghan Agosta-Marciano
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I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
— Douglas MacArthur
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What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons full of greens.…
— Ruth Pitter
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The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a…
— Wendell Berry
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It is impossible for any culture to be sound and healthy without a proper respect and proper regard for the soil.
— Unknown Author
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Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a…
— Dave Barry
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I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
— Plutarch
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We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what…
— William Vogt
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Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
— Aldo Leopold
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All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.
— William Butler Yeats
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Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.
— Albert Howard
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The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood…
— Joseph Stalin
Who Wrote These Soil Quotes
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