Soil Quotes

837 Soil quotes by 607 unique authors

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget. — Unknown Author
Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades? — John Milton
One year ago, on this occasion, I called your attention to the abuses that had crept into the distribution of our public funds, and I… — J. Reuben Clark
Because nitrous oxide [released by nitrate-fertilised soil] is 296 times stronger than COâ‚‚ at global warming and methane [cow farts] is about 26 times as… — Thom Hartmann
When the Europeans first arrived in North America, the average depth of the topsoil was 53.34 cm (1¾ ft) and it was rich in the… — Thom Hartmann
We realize the indivisibility of the earth-its soil, mountains, rivers, forests, climate, plants, and animals-and respect it collectively not only as a useful servant but… — Aldo Leopold
The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter… — Ronald Reagan
The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can… — Annie Dillard
The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for… — James Russell Lowell
Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit… — Michael Pollan
The clearest evidence that we are living beyond environmental means is the threat of dangerous climate change. The scale of this threat, to human life… — David Miliband
We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future… — Wendell Berry
In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value… — Wendell Berry
To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at… — Maya Angelou
The soil says, don't bring me your need, bring me your seed. — Jim Rohn
In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about,… — Jhumpa Lahiri
Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from the… — Michael Dowd
Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I… — Doris Grumbach
The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake. — William McKinley
The soil is the gift of God to the living. — Thomas Jefferson
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily… — Henry David Thoreau
Many people I've met believe that plants are made up of soil-that the tree outside your house, for example, is mostly made from the soil… — Thom Hartmann
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry
A Song of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms - a song of the soil… — Walt Whitman

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