Soil Quotes

837 Soil quotes by 607 unique authors

If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health… — Wendell Berry
Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which grieving for the… — Hal Porter
A significant number of petroleum geologists believe that we will reach the global maximum of petroleum extraction within this decade or that we have already… — William J. Clinton
...the computer models are very good at solving equations of fluid dynamics but very bad at describing the real world. The real world is full… — Freeman Dyson
Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil. — Aristotle
Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in… — Claude Levi-Strauss
We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood — Gamal Abdel Nasser
It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil. — Chester W. Nimitz
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils,… — James Russell Lowell
There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there… — Calvin Coolidge
The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water & soil, all abundantly… — Ludwig Boltzmann
Hear me, people: We have now to deal with another race- small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing.… — Sitting Bull
Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining to food, shelter or clothing...… — Unknown Author
We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. — Barack Obama
We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too. — Freeman Dyson
Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent of Earth's forests… — David Suzuki
Weeds don't need planting in well-drained soil; they don't ask for fertilizer or bits of rag to scare away the birds. They come without invitation;… — Unknown Author
Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer… — Henry David Thoreau
A man that advances in spiritual and in temporal matters at the same time, minding to keep the spiritual first, will not let the temporal… — Unknown Author
Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds. — Leonardo da Vinci
In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater. — Jared Diamond
As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them. — Louis Bromfield
An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful services, and also has value… — Tim Benton

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