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Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune. — Tony Snow

But in the end, if everything goes to plan, I'll have 92 square meters of crop-able soil. Hell yeah I'm a botanist! Fear my botany powers! — Andy Weir

Flowers represent hope for us; but we do not represent hope for them! Let us keep the flowers in the soil; no plucking! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Daughter of wheat and grain, Betrothed to soil and stain, Your lifeblood drips, The scales tip, But will it be in vain? — Laura Thalassa

I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees. — Lisa St. Aubin De Teran

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds. — David Hume

He managed not to disturb too much of the flower bed as he tamped soil over the Jaffa Cake box that had taken on the role of hamster coffin so well. — Anonymous

I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud. — N. Scott Momaday

We sprung from thin soil, and raised more kin than crops, but we were proud folk... — Louis L'Amour

A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil. — George Meredith

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

But human borders mean nothing to air, water, windblown soil or seeds or migrating fish, birds or mammals. — David Suzuki

I resolved to break the barren soil of my fruitless brain. — Elizabeth Grymeston

If the soil were as good as the harbors, it would be a blessing. — Jacques Cartier

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment. — Khalil Gibran

making soil soup deep — Bell Hooks

One of the major problems is what we do to the soil, the air, the water and everything, we take in our food. — Charlotte Gerson

I'm looking forward to a good night's sleep on the soil of a friend. [on an upcoming trip to Denmark] — George W. Bush

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. — Aldo Leopold

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God's Word. — Billy Graham

My mind mends my motives and my notion navigates my natives,for we all are made of soil-our corrupted soil. — Munia Khan

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe. — Clifford D. Simak

It's okay to take the food out of the mouths of the citizens from a government that's plotting an attack directly on American soil. — Mark Kirk

A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Friends , the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests . — Novalis

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection — John Powell

Do you understand the meaning of the soil beneath your feet? — P.J. Parker

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture. — Quintilian

Out of the long list of nature's gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil. — Hugh Hammond Bennett

Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers. — John Keats

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder. — Daniel Libeskind

A seed cannot grow in stone. It requires fertile soil, air, water, and sunlight. Compassion is like the fertile soil where life grows. — Amit Ray

Juan de Grijalva, coincidentally the first European to smoke on continental American soil, — Iain Gately

Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted. — Henry David Thoreau

Nothing knits a broken realm together so quick as an invading army on its soil. — George R R Martin

I am a nationalist ... my native soil is the theatre. — Cyril Cusack

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than
one rooted in pavements. — Aldo Leopold

How dare you treat your soil like dirt! — Joel Salatin

The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal. — Wendell Berry

Soil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development — Jeffrey Sachs

A letter to send to you and if I forget, or god forbid die too soon, hope that you'll hear me,know that I wrote to you. — Sara Quin

He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky. — Douglas William Jerrold

Lay down your roots now,
let them wrap tight around mine,
sink deep in the soil. — Tyler Knott Gregson

O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree,
So scant of grass, so profligate of pines — Jean Toomer

I think we are all about to become rootless. It may be time. The soil has become poisonous. — Stan Goff

The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men. — John Muir

Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds. — Benjamin Franklin

As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil;So will a man's reason vary with the quality of his friends. — Thiruvalluvar

The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too. — Emile Zola

If one finger brings oil it soils the others. — Chinua Achebe

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil. — Henry Ward Beecher

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot

If you want to have a balanced garden, feed the soil and build the ecosystem. — Cindy Conner

If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. — Alexis De Tocqueville

We know more about soils of Mars than about soils of Africa — Pedro

Weeds don't become roses because they grow in the same soil. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Meditation is like farming ... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

Nope. It was a big fat minus sign. Which means negative. Not pregnant. No baby. Infertile. Nothing's growing in this soil. — Laurelin Paige

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil. — Chester W. Nimitz

Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort. — Dorothy Dunnett

I read in one of the gardening books that manure was very good for soil, so I had a shitload delivered. — Kaaron Warren

It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil. — Vagit Alekperov

Be like the date that grows sweeter and sweeter , even though the soil that nourishes it is rocky and harsh — Anita Amirrezvani

While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil. — Thomas Jefferson

Live, die, something else lives. The very soil humanity walks upon is built up from death. Digging into a flowerbed means digging into bones. — M. Jones

It is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without a proper respect for the soil. — Peter Maurin

Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change. — Steve Maraboli

I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war. — Mike Lee

It's that which is between the gardener and his bit of soil that makes a garden. — Robin Hobb

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds. — Plutarch

And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature? — Ellen Glasgow

I have fallen so many times I should be a master of soil composition, and bruises. — Myself

The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up. — Jason Mraz

Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power? — Woodrow Wilson

The turnip cannot thrive in the tulips patch of soil. — Jessie Burton

The fallow soil of loneliness is fertile ground for self-deception. — Dean Koontz

The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer. — Eugene Fitch Ware

I believe the duality of life is fertile soil. — Ken Grace

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. — Ray Charles

You have stirred the soil with your plow, my friend. It will never be the same again. — Martha Ostenso

Wanna play a joke on your chiropractor? The next time he starts working on you, go limp and soil yourself. — Mike Wilmot

We are very fortunate to have someone else's weapons stationed on our soil, to fight those targeted on us. — Margaret Thatcher

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms. — Elizabeth George

In the soil too fat and happy, the praying mantises too pious and too plentiful, — Laura Ruby

As water tastes of the soil it runs through, so does the soul taste of the authors that a man reads. — John Trapp

Mother is the home we come from.
She is nature, soil, ocean. — Erich Fromm

It seemed to her that almost everything she possessed had its roots sunk in that dark soil and was deriving its nourishment from it. — Haruki Murakami

Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply. — Henry Lindlahr

My fingers smell like soil and my lips taste like sugar and I'm so awake right now I wonder if I'll be able to sleep tonight. — Ally Condie

Let go of your old tired habits and plant new habits in fertile soil. — Harley King

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration — J.I. Packer

Clouds, leaves, soil, and wind all offer themselves as signals of changes in the weather. However, not all the storms of life can be predicted. — David Petersen

Branches of spiraea bowed under sleeves of blossom, and delphinium shoots nudged the soil. With the — Rachel Joyce

There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass. — Wendell Berry

If you have the soul of a gardener, not for anything would you work with gloves on. — Ruth Stout

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath. — Lucy Freeman

It is time in particular that prepares the opinions and beliefs of crowds, or at least the soil on which they will germinate. — Gustave Le Bon