Soils Quotes
38 quotes by 32 authors
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All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. . . The…
— Aldo Leopold
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Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
— Aldo Leopold
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The rapid growth of industry, the ever increasing population and the imperative need for more varied, wholesome and nourishing foodstuff makes it all the more…
— George Washington Carver
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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
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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...…
— Martha Van Rensselaer
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As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.
— Louis Bromfield
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Our national conservation effort must include the complete spectrum of resources: air, water, and land; fuels, energy, and minerals; soils, forests, and forage; fish and…
— John F. Kennedy
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The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing is…
— Michael Pollan
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There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the growth of few…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.
— Aldo Leopold
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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
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We know more about soils of Mars than about soils of Africa
— Pedro
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I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been, because millions of years have…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek - topo for place and cosmos for…
— Dolores LaChapelle
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We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.
— Alan Chadwick
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It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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The clearest evidence that we are living beyond environmental means is the threat of dangerous climate change. The scale of this threat, to human life…
— David Miliband
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We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future…
— Wendell Berry
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In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value…
— Wendell Berry
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There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the…
— Bill Mollison
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