The Soil Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about The Soil

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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

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

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

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

Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. — Reginald Heber

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

How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil. — Marion Nestle

Keep the soil healthy and the bad seed won't grow. — David Agus

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

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

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

Up goes the rocket. Its golden grain falls, fertilising, upon the rich soil of my imagination. — Virginia Woolf

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

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

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

War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything else goes with it. — George Monbiot

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

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

The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down. — Neal A. Maxwell

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals. — Dan Barber

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them. — Sitting Bull

Tom Jr. was steeped in Free Soil politics and was now chief justice of the Kansas State Supreme Court. — Robert L. O'Connell

For mine is the old belief ... There is a soil in every leaf. — Maturin Murray Ballou

There is hardly a foot of soil in all this region that has not been enriched by the blood of men, patriots or invaders. — Bram Stoker

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

Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips. — Margaret Atwood

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

The soil is the gift of God to the living. — Thomas Jefferson

Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds. — Richard Paul Evans

The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth. — Henry David Thoreau

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds. — Leonardo Da Vinci

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

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

Under natural conditions, the soil does not lose its fixed nitrogen. — Fritz Haber

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit — Seneca The Younger

[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government. — Thomas Jefferson

We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them. — Mao Zedong

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

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

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

As for the insane doctrine that being born in a country gives some right to the possession of the soil of that country, it hardly requires notice. — George Saintsbury

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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