Garden Soil Quotes

#1. The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.

John Steinbeck

#2. Greatness is finding your natural talent, fueling it with passion, planting it in well-nourished soil, and toiling in the garden until it breaks through the earth and reaches for the stars.

Janet Autherine

#3. Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

Aldo Leopold

#4. Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one.

Dave Barry

#5. What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons full of greens. The sense that we have brought to birth Out of the cold and heavy soil, The blessed fruits and flowers of earth Is large reward for our toil.

Ruth Pitter

#6. It's that which is between the gardener and his bit of soil that makes a garden.

Robin Hobb

#7. When cultivating your garden, keep the soil healthy with encroachers. The most redolent flowers grow over graves.

Bauvard

#8. 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 die.

Calvin W. Allison

#9. The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

Plutarch

#10. I believe in gardening the soil as well as the soul.

Costa Georgiadis

#11. Alan Chadwick's garden is a 'garden of the mind' as much as it is of the soil, and like all genuinely inspired creations it has the power to stir us to new dreams, to a new vision of what man and nature can do, together.

Page Smith

#12. When I am out in my garden or in the fields ... , I think if anything, we are just earth ... We are earth, walking about, eating it. We are composed of the soil, but free to wander. When we dig, we dig at ourselves.

Jane Borodale

#13. Re-programming your mind, body & spirit is like planting a garden, if the soil isn't right nothing will grow.

Nikki Rowe

#14. Somewhere on the world was the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, rainbowed with flowers.

Isaac Asimov

#15. Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.

Aristotle.

#17. Some turn the soil and plant seedlings. We garden with words and nurture affinity.

Sherry Thomas

#18. The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals, water, and air; shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits and greens for people and wildlife.

Toby Hemenway

#19. The various earth odors all have a separate tale to tell, and the leaf mold of the woods bears a wholly different fragrance from that of the soil under pasture turf, or the breath that the garden gives off in great sighs of relief when it is relaxed and refreshed by a summer shower.

Mabel Osgood Wright

#20. Anger is a weed...It grows up through the soil, choking every other plant. You must stamp it out. Don't let it enter your garden. Stamp out your anger until it never comes back.

Adam Gidwitz

#21. It is impossible for any culture to be sound and healthy without a proper respect and proper regard for the soil.

Andrew Nelson Lytle

#22. I very much consider the Internet a garden, and I'm a gardener, and I plant things in it and I work within the framework of the soil, the seasons, the climate, and the temperature, to produce plants.

Mark Pesce

#23. Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.

Albert Howard

#24. There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.

Ezra Taft Benson

#25. Reap your harvest. (Benefits) You have been sowing seeds on good soil. (Working Hard) Your garden is overflowing abundantly.(Successful) Now is the time for you to fill your basket with the fruits of your labor. (Savings). Prepare your soil for new seeds. (Investments)

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#26. We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.

William Vogt

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

William Butler Yeats

#28. The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn.

Wendell Berry

#29. If I wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study and help it to the utmost, untiringly ... Always, the soil must come first.

Marion Dudley Cran

#30. If you have the soul of a gardener, not for anything would you work with gloves on.

Ruth Stout

#31. Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds.

Louise Hay

#32. Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

Joy Kogawa

#33. But we have to look after mother nature so she can look after us - the water, the soil, the air and all the life within it.

Costa Georgiadis

#34. As the soil of a garden is richer and as the harvest of the garden bears healthier nourishment from the decay of leaf matter and banana peel and egg shell and human hair and chicken bone and fireplace ash, so the accumulation of death in teh ground of a city implants therein energies and powers.

Tim Gilmore

#35. After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.

Karel Capek

#36. If you want to have a balanced garden, feed the soil and build the ecosystem.

Cindy Conner

#37. Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to have a good harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well.

Shunryu Suzuki

#38. The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses.

C. JoyBell C.

#39. Wherever you have a plot of land, however small, plant a garden. Staying close to the soil is good for the soul.

Spencer W. Kimball

#40. The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

Wendell Berry

#41. Really, what [sea] ice does is it acts like a garden. ... Losing that ice is like losing the soil in a garden.

Paul Nicklen