Conditions Quote by Charles Kellogg

History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products of the…

— Hugh Hammond Bennett

We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it…

— William Vogt

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…

— Marjorie Harris

A soil adapted to the growth of plants, is necessarily prepared and carefully preserved; and, in the necessary waste of land which is inhabited,…

— James Hutton

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

— Henry David Thoreau

History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it…

— Jacques Barzun

Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.

— George Monbiot

History is everything in gardening: With a site, weather, a particular plant. It solves mysteries. And it's why, when others say, "You can't do…

— Janet Macunovich

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.

— Virgil

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…

— Anonymous

The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which…

— Wendell Berry

Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of…

— Hugh Hammond Bennett