Classification Quote by Mary Douglas

If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out…

— Mary Douglas

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

— George Monbiot

Dirt is not dirty, but only something in the wrong place.

— Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate rock and…

— Toby Hemenway

Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is due to…

— Charles Kellogg

Just as in nature systems of order govern the growth and structure of animate and inanimate matter, so human activity itself has, since the…

— Josef Muller-Brockmann

That dark laboratory we call the soil.

— Aldo Leopold

It will be found that everything depends on the composition of the forces with which the particles of matter act upon one another; and…

— Roger Joseph Boscovich

The world is made of sugar and dirt.

— Alfred Doblin

And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes; matter assumes new forms, the destruction of…

— Humphry Davy

We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness.

— Mary Baker Eddy