Soil Quotes

837 Soil quotes by 607 unique authors

Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
As a farmer, man himself became closely attached to the landscape, firmly rooted to the soil that supported him. At times the soil seemed bountiful… — Charles Kellogg
Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage… — Hugh Hammond Bennett
History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products of the soil.… — Hugh Hammond Bennett
The greater number of landscapes I explored, the more it seemed that they had traits in common and that the essence of each was not… — J. B. Jackson
Beautiful rocks - beautiful grass Beautiful soil where they both combine Beautiful river - covering sky Never thought of possession, but all this was mine. — Bruce Cockburn
We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil. — Leonardo da Vinci
Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon… — Olympia Snowe
I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where… — John Sergeant Wise
The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth… — Thomas Jefferson
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts. — Ezra Pound
You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to… — Edward Everett Hale
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth… — Ambrose Bierce
John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from… — William Butler Yeats
Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity. — Ellen Glasgow
We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom… — Mao Zedong
... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of… — Leonardo da Vinci
History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles… — Jacques Barzun
And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he… — Homer
In our city spring came from the sky, not from the soil, which was ruled by stone that recognizes no seasonal change. The change of… — Ismail KadarÃ©
That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their… — Janette Turner Hospital
Just Enough Soil for legs Axe for hands Flower for eyes Bird for ears Mushrooms for nose Smile for mouth Songs for lungs Sweat for… — Nanao Sakaki
The human spirit is nurtured by praise, as much as a seedling is nurtured by the soil, the water and the sun. — Mario Fernandez

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