Augusta Quote by William Butler Yeats

All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.

— William Butler Yeats

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

“For every field planted and grown, for every tree rekindled from their rotting root beds, comes that ancient instinct, that hunger for acceptance, for…

— T.S. Tate

The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to…

— Luther Standing Bear

The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me.

— Mary Carolyn Davies

“It turned out plant collecting was a solitary occupation. In the past Robert had enjoyed being alone, or so he thought. Actually he had…

— Tracy Chevalier

“Earth and water, soil and stone, oaks and elms and willows, they were here before us all and will still remain when we are…

— George R.R. Martin

“We are all plants in God's great garden. His knowledge is our soil. With it we can live forever. Without it we wilt and…

— Calvin W. Allison

“We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again, Drawing up from the…

— Robert Bly

“Everything is mended by the soil.”

— Andrew Crofts

“These people came into the world and left it bound to their soil, proliferating on their own dung-hills with slow deliberation like the uncomplicated…

— Émile Zola

“If Earth was such unworthy soil for God's best specimens, why did he perversely plant them there?”

— Emma Donoghue