Soil Quotes

837 Soil quotes by 607 unique authors

The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men. — John Muir
The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty to the best… — Walt Disney
The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth - soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife. — Rachel Carson
What is working stain, does not soil. — Edmondo De Amicis
Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil… — Jawaharlal Nehru
In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites. — Bayard Taylor
A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water,… — Ernest Hemingway
At either end of any food chain you find a biological system-a patch of soil, a human body-and the health of one is connected-literally-to the… — Michael Pollan
It's as if the whole notion of growing soil is something only lunatics would think about. But why not grow soil? Does anything make more… — Joel Salatin
Since chemical fertilizer burns out the soil organic matter, other farmers struggle with tilth, water retention, and basic soil nutrients. The soil gets harder and… — Joel Salatin
Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it. — Aldo Leopold
Unkindness to anything means an injustice to that thing. If I am unkind to you I do you an injustice, or wrong you in some… — George Washington Carver
When there are enough people on the land to use it but not enough to husband it, then the wildness of the soil that we… — Wendell Berry
When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery… — Michael Pollan
You can't tear up everything just to get the dollar out of it without suffering as result. It is a travesty to burn our woods… — George Washington Carver
If in the human economy, a squash in the field is worth more than a bushel of soil, that does not mean that food is… — Wendell Berry
That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we need food and… — Wendell Berry
The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource… — Wendell Berry
The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is a place where… — Wes Jackson
Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood. — Don McLean
Hell, I don't break the soil periodically to 'reaffirm my status'. I do it because archeology is still the most fun you can have with… — Kent V. Flannery
Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks… — Charles Krauthammer
The shadow is not a problem to be solved or an enemy to be conquered, but a fertile field to be cultivated. When we dig… — Debbie Ford
The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in the earthly future… — Nikolai Berdyaev
In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and… — William Wordsworth

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