Soil Quotes
837 Soil quotes by 607 unique authors
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If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil,…
— Alfred de Musset
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May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that stream down my…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honor, We pledge…
— Rudyard Kipling
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Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his own…
— Jan Struther
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The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without live stock; she…
— Albert Howard
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When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to…
— Adolf Hitler
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Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.
— Margaret Atwood
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Good will is a power that can be used every day of the year and every hour of the day. It is instantly available. By…
— Wilferd Peterson
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When Spring unlocks the flowers To paint the laughing soil; When summer's balmy breezes Refresh the mower's toil; When winter holds in frosty chains The…
— Reginald Heber
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Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant…
— John Dewey
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The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark…
— Paul Hawken
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Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are to…
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
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An educator should think of a child as a garderner thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by having the right…
— Bertrand Russell
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For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and…
— James Fallows
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Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to be unburdened of…
— Rajneesh
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We think that diamonds are very important, gold is very important, all these minerals are very important. We call them precious minerals, but they are…
— Wangari Maathai
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Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and…
— Paul Valery
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
— Nikolai Gogol
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.
— John Dryden
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Saints can spring from any soil.
— John Steinbeck
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Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.
— Margaret Sanger
Who Wrote These Soil Quotes
607 authors contributed a total of 837 Soil Quotes, led by these top contributors: