Life Quote by Judith D. Schwartz

“We’ve lost an estimated 50 to 80 percent carbon in our soils over the last 150 years.”

— Judith D. Schwartz

“Steven Apfelbaum, a restoration ecologist in Wisconsin, says that every 1 percent increase in soil carbon holds an additional sixty thousand gallons of water…

— Judith D. Schwartz

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

“By itself, stopping emissions is insufficient. That carbon has to go someplace. As the Soil Carbon Coalition argues, it might as well go into…

— Judith D. Schwartz

It helps to think of soil as a living organism covered with skin like a human. We can live with a certain percentage of…

— Allan Savory

The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the…

— Freeman Dyson

There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet.

— Howard Warren Buffett

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

“Everybody talks about the need to plant trees, but trees can’t take in all that carbon, nor do they have the ‘pulsing’ root systems…

— Judith D. Schwartz

The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.

— Henry David Thoreau

Essentially, all life depends upon the soil

— Charles Kellogg

We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil…

— Freeman Dyson