Top 100 Quotes About Soil
#1. People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.
Idries Shah
#2. The rain has been incessant. It feeds my soul. I feel that it washes over my body, and a part of me drips into the soil with the rain, and a part of me becomes the soil and is drank into the roots of these trees and I have become one with them.
Garth Stein
#3. The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil, we often find diamonds.
Elizabeth Prentiss
#4. 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
#5. The turnip cannot thrive in the tulips patch of soil.
Jessie Burton
#6. Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#7. Nobody will be allowed to use Pakistan soil for any form of aggression toward any friend or foe.
Asif Ali Zardari
#8. Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
Ben Stein
#9. WHEN GOD CREATED ROBOT SOULS HAVE NO SOIL WHEN FIRST CHISELED. SO,HOW,IT IS FELT AS COMMITTED &CONVICTED BAD OR GOOD DEEDS OF CREATURES.TO DRAFT CYCLIC BIRTHS FATE.IS IT NOT DIVINE WILL & PLEASURE SELF DECISION.?????????
Various
#10. Friends , the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests .
Novalis
#11. Even where the soil was most corrupt, the willow found a way to survive.
Joelle Charbonneau
#12. People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.
Henry Cantwell Wallace
#13. Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.
Henry David Thoreau
#14. It is the artists who make the true value of the world, though at times they may have to starve to do it. They are like earthworms, turning up the soil so things can grow, eating dirt so that the rest of us may eat green shoots.
Erica Jong
#15. 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 soul of trees which scatter their seed about their feet, with little conception of any larger world beyond the dun rocks among which they vegetated.
Emile Zola
#16. Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
Al-Ghazali
#17. There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet.
Howard Warren Buffett
#18. In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the seeds of all that we feel wrong with the world in the soil of our own backyard.
Steve Scott
#19. Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.
John Milton
#20. As a farmer, man himself became closely attached to the landscape, firmly rooted to the soil that supported him. At times the soil seemed bountiful and kindly and again stubborn and unfriendly, but it was always a challenge to man's cunning.
Charles Kellogg
#21. Select a large bulb with several well-developed offsets. Clean off the soil from the offsets and pull them away from the parent bulb, taking care to preserve any roots. Prepare pots with a moist, sandy compost. Inset a single offset into each pot, and cover it with compast. Label, and water.
Royal Horticultural Society
#22. A chemist may understand the molecular basis of a strawberry. A geneticist may understand the DNA sequences that underlie different varieties of strawberries. A botanist may know the precise soil and water requirements for a strawberry plant to thrive. A yogi knows the strawberry by taking a bite.
Anonymous
#23. I believe that it's vital for children and teens to be educated, to be given information to help them understand the impacts humans are having on our water, soil, and air.
Jayni Chase
#24. In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
Bayard Taylor
#25. Hopeless of the future, I wished but this- that my Maker had that night thought good to require my soul of me while I slept; and that this weary frame, absolved by death from further conflict with fate, had now but to decay quietly, and mingle in peace with the soil of this wilderness.
Charlotte Bronte
#26. At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#27. Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.
Allan Savory
#28. Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.
Voltaire
#29. Here they have no time for the fine graces
of poetry, unless it freely grows
in deep compulsion, like water in the well,
woven into the texture of the soil
in a strong pattern.
Iain Crichton Smith
#30. We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image.
Max Lucado
#31. When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight.
But to me it contains all of the history of oppression and resistance, of being close to the soil and the sky, of plain speaking. Of The Journey.
Bonnie Greer
#32. [Donald] Trump, whether he designed it or not, happens to be the first thing in the news on UK soil the day after the Brexit vote.
Rush Limbaugh
#33. The condition of man is to till the soil; there is no other wholeness to his existence.
Oscar Handlin
#34. Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.
Charles Kellogg
#35. I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
Pope John Paul II
#36. We will have no mercy for white people regarding the land, they cannot own our soil.
Robert Mugabe
#37. In preparing the soil for planting, you will need several tools. Dynamite would be a beautiful thing to use, but it would have a tendency to get the dirt into the front-hall and track up the stairs.
Robert Benchley
#38. God doesn't respond because someone opens up some new insight for Him. No. In persistent, fervent prayer, God prepares the soil of one's heart to make room for the seed of His answer, from which will flower an alignment with His will.
Ravi Zacharias
#39. An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but the ways in which a story-germ uses the soil of experience are extremely complex, and attempts to define the process are at best guesses from evidence that is inadequate and ambiguous.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#40. Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
Ambrose Bierce
#41. When my own time comes, will I too long for the sea? I think I will be content enough with the soil. And I will not demand the exact spot, but let it be within this country Horace and I have spent the years roaming contentedly.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#42. Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#43. Being about to land on the soil of North Carolina, the general commanding desires his soldiers to remember that they are here to support the Constitution and the laws, to put down rebellion, and to protect the persons and property of the loyal and peaceable citizens of the State.
Ambrose Burnside
#46. I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just keep soaring. I like that spirit.
Barbara Jordan
#47. But evil does not die, just as history does not end. Like a weed, evil can be cut back but never entirely uprooted. It waits for its chance to spread through the cracks in our vigilance. It can take root in the fertile soil of our complacency, or even the rocky rubble of the fallen Berlin Wall.
Garry Kasparov
#48. There is currently more sprawl covering American soil than was ever intended by its inventors. While there are some people who truly enjoy living in this environment, there are many others who would prefer to walk to school, bicycle to work, or simply spend less time in the car.
Andres Duany
#49. Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#50. It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.
Nicolas Chamfort
#52. Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from the living earth. We are Earth. What we do to Earth, we do to our self.
Michael Dowd
#53. He emphasized once again that all action and adventure with moments of meaning happen in a place called elsewhere, and never in the sad soil of Manchester.
Morrissey
#54. 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
#55. A manure containing several ingredients acts in this wise: The effect of all of them in the soil accommodates itself to that one among them which, in comparison to the wants of the plant, is present in the smallest quantity.
Justus Von Liebig
#56. The creator of stars, heaven and earth
surpassed himself when he also created pain. Lips like rubies, delicious-smelling hair, blooming flowers, how many of you are
already buried in earthy soil?
Omar Khayyam
#57. You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
Jacob Bronowski
#58. The grief that was so strong it shook like continental shifts, dividing what was now from what was, forcing me to acknowledge that I was going to have to build a life on foreign soil.
Jessica Gadziala
#59. If we weren't so dirt-conscious, we would obtain adequate vitamin B12 from soil, air, water, and bacteria, but we meticulously wash and peel our vegetables now - and with good reason, as we can't be sure our soil is not contaminated with pesticides and herbicides.
Sharon Gannon
#60. This suggests that Palestine already had begun to suffer the soil erosion that during the centuries of Arab cultivation reduced it from the one-time land of milk and honey to a stony goat pasture. Saewulf
Barbara W. Tuchman
#61. The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins of all our modern industry and commerce. In fact,our civilization is wholly built upon our scientific discoveries.
Herbert Hoover
#62. New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#63. When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder; one gets a shovel. When one wants to get into touch with the texture of the universal mind, one does not go to Boston; one goes to the Bowery.
Djuna Barnes
#64. Earth and water, soil and stone, oaks and elms and willows, they were here before us all and will still remain when we are gone.
George R R Martin
#65. Ina stood and shuffled over tot he urn on the fireplace. Stroked it with a twisted finger. "How are we supposed to get more consecrated soil, now? Taxi drivers always look at you so strangely when you get in with a shovel and say, 'Take me to the nearest graveyard.
Stuart MacBride
#66. Gratitude. More aware of what you have than what you don't. Recognizing the treasure in the simple - a child's hug, fertile soil, a golden sunset. Relishing in the comfort of the common.
Max Lucado
#67. 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
#68. I started looking all over for vineyard sites. I studied the conditions that make the best pinots. In the New World, you have to find the great pieces of land. Cool climate counts, but distinctive soil matters more than anything.
Kevin Harvey
#69. Cinema should always be in touch with the soil of the country. My films celebrate the heartland of India.
Salman Khan
#70. So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons.
Terry Pratchett
#71. You don't want to give God the credit because you don't think he exists. But if you're going to blame him for all the crap, kid, you got to give him credit for what grows from that fertilized soil.
Orson Scott Card
#72. Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,
like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.
Jeffrey McDaniel
#73. It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves.
Cesar Chavez
#74. The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer.
Eugene Fitch Ware
#75. I like to write. I like to choose the right word, I like to write the right sentence. It's just like gardening or something. You put the seed into the soil at the right time, in the right place.
Haruki Murakami
#76. 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
#77. where does it derive its strength?
is it the blood soaked soil?
or the fear stained heart?
A.P. Sweet
#78. Let not a single soul discharge you, because we are a group of beautiful people...and you two are richer, with greater potential than this soil.
Curtis W. Jackson
#79. The shadow is not a problem to be solved or an enemy to be conquered, but a fertile field to be cultivated. When we dig our hands into its rich soil we will discover the potent seeds of the people we most desire to be.
Debbie Ford
#80. A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a congenial soil, otherwise they will never make the growth that will serve them richly according to their needs in their adult life.
Vita Sackville-West
#81. but i want to ask her what is wrong with being dark and heavy
with your feet firmly on soil?
Salma Deera
#82. Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.
P.D. James
#83. Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.
Don McLean
#84. Dust rises at every step, fine as flour. It is dried river silt, that dust. Add water, and the soil is so fertile that you could plant a pencil and harvest a book.
Mary Doria Russell
#85. Whether people are fully conscious of this or not, they actually derive countenance and sustenance from the 'atmosphere' of the things they live in or with. They are rooted in them just as a plant is in the soil in which it is planted.
A.A. Buhlmann
#86. A tree's most important means of staying connected to other trees is a "wood wide web" of soil fungi that connects vegetation in an intimate network that allows the sharing of an enormous amount of information and goods.
Tim Flannery
#87. What grows [from] the dark soil of disappointment?
Pam Munoz Ryan
#88. I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I have no pride of ancestry to point back to. Our forefathers did not come here as did the Pilgrim fathers, in search of a place where they could enjoy civil and religious liberties.
Augustus Washington
#89. I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.
William Faulkner
#90. To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at injustice and cruelty.
Maya Angelou
#91. We're using satellites to help map and model cultural features that could never be seen on the ground because they're obscured by modernization, forests, or soil.
Sarah Parcak
#92. But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices.
King Albert II
#93. It is impossible for any culture to be sound and healthy without a proper respect and proper regard for the soil.
Andrew Nelson Lytle
#94. Senior administrators within the CIA participated in plausible denial and other disinformation and cover-up strategies concerning CIA operations run on U.S. soil. Like
Colin A. Ross
#95. A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. A free society fertilizes the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.
Henry Steele Commager
#96. But Ahab's glance was averted; like a blighted fruit tree he shook, and cast his last, cindered apple to the soil.
Herman Melville
#97. We sprung from thin soil, and raised more kin than crops, but we were proud folk...
Louis L'Amour
#98. Something I owe to the soil that grew
More to the life that fed
But most to Allah who gave me two
Separate sides to my head.
Rudyard Kipling
#99. If the sweat and blood of all faiths seeped into the same soil, then a synthesis must take root
Shahrukh Husain
#100. Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization.
S.I. Hayakawa
