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Soil Quotes by John Burroughs
- The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie back of all,…
- How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us…
- For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of…
- Man takes root at his feet, and at best he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has…
More Soil Quotes
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a… — Henry Ward Beecher
- The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to… — Pope Benedict XVI
- There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in… — Ezra Taft Benson
- You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and… — Jacob Bronowski
- Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by… — Charlotte Bronte
- A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls… — Pam Brown
- But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened… — King Albert II
- Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them. — Sitting Bull
- Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. — Edmund Burke
- My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. — Ray Charles