Earth Quote by Tashunka Witko

The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his…

— Henry David Thoreau

The fate of the soil system depends on society's willingness to intervene in the market place, and to forego some of the short-term benefits…

— Eugene Odum

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

As a farmer, man himself became closely attached to the landscape, firmly rooted to the soil that supported him. At times the soil seemed…

— Charles Kellogg

Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when…

— Aldo Leopold

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more…

— Henry David Thoreau

Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore…

— Karl Marx

By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means…

— Henry David Thoreau

How dare you treat your soil like dirt!

— Joel Salatin

The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed,…

— Henry David Thoreau

People need to realize how powerful the transformation of soil can be.

— Ron Finley