Topsoil Quotes
14 quotes by 14 authors
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Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got…
— Jack Handey
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The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss…
— Wangari Maathai
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It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioactive wastes, acid…
— Carl Sagan
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There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.
— Wendell Berry
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Nations endure only as long as their topsoil.
— Henry Cantwell Wallace
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God must be a smell, one of those delicious dreamy aromas that float into the soul on the warm hopeful days of spring. What is…
— Martin Prechtel
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When the Europeans first arrived in North America, the average depth of the topsoil was 53.34 cm (1¾ ft) and it was rich in the…
— Thom Hartmann
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Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the…
— Paul Harvey
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The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are…
— Jared Diamond
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Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies…
— Stuart L. Hart
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We are already engaged in World War III. It is a war against nature, and it is simply no contest. As a result, the threat…
— Norman Myers
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My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.
— Elizabeth Kostova
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Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast…
— David Mitchell
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The winter period between September and March in this country, when land sits fallow and is subject to topsoil loss, we could be enriching the…
— Vinod Khosla
Who Wrote These Topsoil Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 14 Topsoil Quotes as follows: