Soil Quotes

837 Soil quotes by 607 unique authors

Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky. — Douglas William Jerrold
There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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… — John Burroughs
Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. — Alexander Pope
How about this miracle... God says if you plant the seed I will make the tree. Wow, you can't have a better arrangement than that.… — Jim Rohn
No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock,… — Joshua Reynolds
Vermilion alone could render the brilliant red of the tiles on the opposite slope. The orange of the soil, the harsh crude colors of the… — Maurice de Vlaminck
Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must… — Carl von Clausewitz
Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony? — Pat Buchanan
The professional will not tolerate disorder... He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown. — Steven Pressfield
Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil — David Ricardo
Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists. — Ai Weiwei
Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers. — Alana Beard
The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own time and the… — Asger Jorn
Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty. — Walter Darby Bannard
Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it. — Walter Darby Bannard
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts… — John Muir
Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later… — Rachel Carson
Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also… — Rachel Carson
These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect,… — Rachel Carson
. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil. — Roy Wilkins
We are born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live on the same land, and why should we not be brothers and sisters? — Nathan Bedford Forrest
In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it. — Will Rogers
I have seen oaks of many species in many kinds of exposure and soil, but those of Kentucky excel in grandeur all I had ever… — John Muir

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