Soil Quotes

837 Soil quotes by 607 unique authors

I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil. — Vincent Van Gogh
The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self. — Jen Hatmaker
One of the major problems is what we do to the soil, the air, the water and everything, we take in our food. — Charlotte Gerson
I still try to keep my eyes open. I'm always on the lookout for antlion traps in sandy soil, monarch pupae near milkweed, skipper larvae… — Annie Dillard
If one finger brings oil it soils the others. — Chinua Achebe
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
We will have no mercy for white people regarding the land, they cannot own our soil. — Robert Mugabe
We wish Pakistan both stability and security; we expect them to understand our legitimate concerns of preventing people from using its soil to inflict problem… — Salman Khurshid
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period. — John Lothrop Motley
I knew God wanted to do much more...and he would, if we provided good soil in which he could work. — Jim Cymbala
It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more… — Arthur Schopenhauer
... finding that in [the Moon] there is a provision of light and heat; also in appearance, a soil proper for habitation fully as good… — William Herschel
Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited upon… — Stefan Zweig
So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there… — Terry Pratchett
Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates… — Karl Marx
It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the… — Henry David Thoreau
What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the enterprise… — Henry David Thoreau
If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language… — Henry David Thoreau
Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole — Nnimmo Bassey
Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds. — Richard Paul Evans
The carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake or a sheaf… — Alison Fell
There isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man — Oliver Cromwell
A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. Once begun it has to be carried to its conclusion, and carrying it there… — Bruce Catton
Representing Canada as a hockey player is always a tremendous honor, which also comes with a lot of responsibility. Being able to compete and win… — Scott Niedermayer
Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize. — Ambrose Bierce

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