Soil Quotes

837 Soil quotes by 607 unique authors

As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision… — Gary Snyder
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make… — Ernest Hemingway
The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as… — Henry David Thoreau
Skin was earth; it was soil. I could see, even on my own skin, the joined trapezoids of dust specks God had wetted and stuck… — Annie Dillard
Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it,… — Etgar Keret
Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the… — C.D. Wright
taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor. They floated out… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as… — Primo Levi
If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become… — Jonathan Safran Foer
But one kiss levitates above all the others. The intersection of function and desire. The I do kiss. The I’ll love you through a brick… — Jeffrey McDaniel
Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to… — Terry Goodkind
Be generous in prosperity and thankful in adversity, Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be a lamp unto those who walk… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the… — Joel Salatin
We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can… — Paul Newman
Treating everyone she met like family, and burying needless critism of others so deep beneath the soil of everyday living that only kindness ever saw… — Jason F. Wright
Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't… — Annie Dillard
Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes… — Terry Pratchett
My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find… — Hermann Hesse
Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort. — Dorothy Dunnett
Man takes root at his feet, and at best he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has… — John Burroughs
We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots? — Christina Rossetti
How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years growing? How much… — Stephen King
How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried myself with more… — Rainer Maria Rilke

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