Soil Quotes

837 Soil quotes by 607 unique authors

But we have to look after mother nature so she can look after us - the water, the soil, the air and all the life… — Costa Georgiadis
The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer. — Eugene Fitch Ware
Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate rock and the… — Toby Hemenway
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a… — Luther Standing Bear
The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals, water, and air; shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits… — Toby Hemenway
Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
The blood of criminals fertilises the soil of liberty. — Joseph Fouche
Soil is a resource, a living, breathing entity that, if treated properly, will maintain itself. It's our lifeline for survival. When it has finally been… — Marjorie Harris
The flower draws its life energy from the soil and from the sun. We are very similar. We continuously receive energy from the earth through… — Ratu Bagus
Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or… — P.D. James
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds. — David Hume
Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual. — Al-Ghazali
We human beings are not only the beneficiaries but also the stewards of other creatures. Thanks to our bodies, God has joined us so closely… — Pope Francis
The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers which are… — Mary Wollstonecraft
But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully,… — Theodor Herzl
The Jews who will it shall achieve their State. We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and in our own… — Theodor Herzl
My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land... In… — Aldo Leopold
You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become… — Ernest Hemingway
Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right to… — William C. Bryant
From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans are great on… — Gretel Ehrlich
I think most American churchgoers are the soil that chokes the seed because of all the thorns. Thorns are anything that distracts us from God. When we… — Francis Chan
For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and… — Christopher Dawson
In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries… — Oswald Spengler
People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let… — Henry A. Wallace
In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back. — Vandana Shiva

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