Quotes About The Soil

#1. Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.

Ai Weiwei

#2. Evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. Every time it rains, the soil counts every drop to know exactly how many times to thank to God!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Nikki Rowe

#6. It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Orison Swett Marden

#7. The soil, it appears, is suited to the seed, for it has sent its radicle downward, and it may now send its shoot upward also with confidence. Why has man rooted himself thus firmly in the earth, but that he may rise in the same proportion into the heavens above?

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate,
Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate.
In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like,
They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

Alexander Pope

#9. Always, some great culture is dying to enrich the soil of new harvests, some civlization is crumbling to rubbish to be the hill of a more beautiful city, some race is spending itself that a lower and more barbarous world may inherit its stored treasure house.

George Edward Woodberry

#10. But I promise," she breathed into the soil, "I promise that I will stop him. I promise that I will never forgive, never forget what they did to you. I promise that I will free Eyllwe. I promise that I will see your father's crown restored to his head.

Sarah J. Maas

#11. The last fling of winter is over ... The earth, the soil itself, has a dreaming quality about it. It is warm now to the touch; it has come alive; it hides secrets that in a moment, in a little while, it will tell.

Donald C. Peattie

#12. The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool.

Charles Sturt

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.

John Stuart Mill

#16. Like a dead branch falling from a tree, which them decomposes and nourishes the soil, your disappointments can transform into the elements of change and growth.

Ethan Hawke

#17. What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

George Bernard Shaw

#18. In time, we will have to recognise that it is not 'nature' that we need to protect, but ourselves, and we can only do this by abandoning the old, grandiose, profit-seeking schemes so beloved of our masters and learning to till the soil, live to scale, and live within our means.

John Burnside

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

Costa Georgiadis

#20. That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we need food and must have it before we can eat-may seem absurd. It is absurd. It is nevertheless true.

Wendell Berry

#21. I see the day in our own lifetime that reverence for the natural systems, the oceans, the rainforests, the soil, the grasslands, and all other living things will be so strong that no narrow ideology based upon politics or economics will overcome it.

Jerry Brown

#22. Be like the date that grows sweeter and sweeter , even though the soil that nourishes it is rocky and harsh

Anita Amirrezvani

#23. Put your seed in the soil, no matter the dormancy period, with faith, there shall surely be germination

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#24. A man's first loyalty is to the soil he stands on.

Elizabeth George Speare

#25. We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#26. Growth of the soil was something different, a thing to be procured at any cost; the only source, the origin of all. A dull and desolate existence? Nay, least of all. A man had everything; his powers above, his dreams, his loves, his wealth of superstition.

Knut Hamsun

#27. Ah, never shall the land forget
How gush'd the life-blood of the brave,
Gush'd warm with hope and courage yet,
Upon the soil they fought to save!

William C. Bryant

#28. LIKE A GREAT WATERWHEEL, THE LITURGICAL YEAR goes on relentlessly irrigating our souls, softening the ground of our hearts, nourishing the soil of our lives until the seed of the Word of God itself begins to grow in us, comes to fruit in us, ripens in us the spiritual journey of a lifetime.

Joan D. Chittister

#29. Where grows?
where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

Alexander Pope

#30. In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill ...

Edward Gibbon

#31. Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.

Margaret Fuller

#32. If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.

Robert Grosseteste

#33. When all your energies are brought into harmony, your body flourishes. And when your body flourishes, your soul has a soil in which it can blossom in the world. These are the ultimate reasons for energy medicine - to prepare the soil and nurture the blossom.

Donna Eden

#34. Have we so soon forgotten those four years of terrible carnage, the greatest war of all time; forgotten the millions of men who gave their lives, who made the supreme sacrifice and who today, beneath the soil of France and Belgium, sleep the eternal sleep?

Frank B. Kellogg

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

John Trapp

#36. I think we are all about to become rootless. It may be time. The soil has become poisonous.

Stan Goff

#37. The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.

John Lawson

#38. It is the kind of place where human skeletons might sink into the soil undisturbed and unmourned.

Nadifa Mohamed

#39. We might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#40. My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.

Radhanath Swami

#41. Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#42. If the soil were as good as the harbors, it would be a blessing.

Jacques Cartier

#43. Everything is mended by the soil.

Andrew Crofts

#44. The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it.

Isabella Bird

#45. Let me also say I wanna make you sandwhiches,
And soup,
And peanut butter cookies,
Though, the truth is peanutbutter is actually really bad for you 'cause they grow peanuts in old cotton fields to clean the toxins out of the soil,
But hey, you like peanutbutter and I like you!

Andrea Gibson

#46. Off fucking shitty mankind, you change the topic... you say something I say something against and immediately you change the topic, but why?
The soil is too hot?
The sand is too hot?
Why?

Deyth Banger

#47. A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

Eric Ries

#48. The young were all fleeing the countryside to work in the city. Nobody seemed to want to live any more between the soil and the cow pats. [Italy in 1960s]

Marco Vichi

#49. The quality of the soil determines the outcome of the seed.

Sunday Adelaja

#50. Men nowhere, east or west, live yet a natural life, round which the vine clings, and which the elm willingly shadows. Man would desecrate it by his touch, and so the beauty of the world remains veiled to him. He needs not only to be spiritualized, but naturalized, on the soil of earth.

Henry David Thoreau

#51. The light lives in the spaces between. It is there in the soil of that mountain, in the rock and in the snow.

Leigh Bardugo

#52. The fate of the soil system depends on society's willingness to intervene in the market place, and to forego some of the short-term benefits that accrue from 'mining' the soil so that soil quality and fertility can be maintained over the longer term.

Eugene Odum

#53. We English have no very strong attachment to the soil, we can make ourselves at home in any part of the world, but the French, I think, have an attachment to their country which is almost a physical bond. They're never really at ease when they're out of it.

W. Somerset Maugham

#54. Its roots emerged forcefully from the earth like the Great Wall and extended at least ten feet toward the house, demanding to be seen from beneath the soil.

Abby Slovin

#55. Man takes root at his feet, and at best he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.

John Burroughs

#56. 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

#57. Dare to imagine. Dare to be.
Books are the seeds. Dreams are the soil.
The fruit of the harvest, a world reborn.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#58. Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Charles Spurgeon

#59. Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it, and it will die. But leave it to thrive in the soil, untouched, and it will weather both gods and winds. It is born with the soil, and it will live so long as the soil shall live.

Etgar Keret

#60. Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.

George Ellwanger

#61. We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. It must be somewhere up there on the horizon, we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet.

William Logan

#62. I remember, as a kid, when I first understood that only half of every tree is visible, that the roots in the soil are equal to the branches in the sky, that a whole other half is underground. It took me a lot longer, well into adulthood, to realize people are like that too.

Elan Mastai

#63. Oh, 'impressed' is not the right word! Treading the soil of the moon gives one, I imagine (or rather my projected self imagines), the most remarkable romantic thrill ever experienced in the history of discovery.

Vladimir Nabokov

#64. That's a big concern right now with these storms coming on the heels of a very wet week. The soil is saturated, and the high winds that are supposed to accompany these storms could potentially knock down trees, which often take down power lines with them.

Bryan Swanson

#65. I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality

Clifford Sifton

#66. The winter period between September and March in this country, when land sits fallow and is subject to topsoil loss, we could be enriching the soil and growing all the biomass we need to replace imported gasoline.

Vinod Khosla

#67. Perhaps in the soul, as in the soil, those growths that show the brightest colours and put forth the most overpowering smell have not always the deepest root.

C.S. Lewis

#68. the trees would die before the poison was out of the soil.

H.P. Lovecraft

#69. Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.

Mike Norton

#70. Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#71. The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own time and the problems of other contemporary artists. Paths cross and the soil of time is starting to be turned.

Asger Jorn

#72. Who ever planted an iroko tree - the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with greatness in men.

Chinua Achebe

#73. Vermilion alone could render the brilliant red of the tiles on the opposite slope. The orange of the soil, the harsh crude colors of the walls and greenery, the ultramarine and cobalt of the sky achieved an extreme harmony that was sensually and musically ordered.

Maurice De Vlaminck

#74. We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.

William Winwood Reade

#75. Istam terra de fossam premat,
gravisque terrus impio capiti incubet!
(As for her, let her be buried deep in earth,
and heavy may the soil lie on her unholy head.)

Seneca.

#76. And for goodness' sake put some of the county back where it belongs, the soil erosion's bad enough as it is."
Dill stared at my father's retreating figure.
"He's trying tryin' to be funny," I said.

Harper Lee

#77. The church is where God's future enters human life in advance, like seed growing secretly in the soil long before the harvest is ever seen (Mk. 4:26-29).

William E. Hull

#78. -compost is trucked in; some crops also receive fish emulsion along with their water and a side dressing of pelleted chicken manure. Over the winter a cover crop of legumes is planted to build up nitrogen in the soil.

Michael Pollan

#79. Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are to flower in the summer.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

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

Bauvard

#81. Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.

Richard Paul Evans

#82. 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

#83. She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.

Scott Westerfeld

#84. You know your gut instincts are spot on about a person when you can also detect a water source in the soil beneath them.

Dane Cook

#85. [Politics] is the seedbed of social enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual. Name anything bad in man, and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with abundance.

Maxim Gorky

#86. A seed doesn't stay beneath the soil, too afraid to grow. It journeys upwards boldly, for that is all it knows.

Atalina Wright

#87. All law must be subjective; the soil knows how to take a seed and make a plant from it; it does not know whether it is making a tomato or a potato ... It knows how to create without knowing what It creates.

Ernest Holmes

#88. Because the earth calls. The soil, the rocks, the clay. It calls to us to remind us, to make sure we remember. The earth will ultimately win. It always does. We will, all of us, end our lives here. Even the birds.

Garth Stein

#89. And part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever the earth feeds and grows Is restored to earth. And since she surely is The womb of all things and their common grave, Earth must dwindle, you see and take on growth again.

Lucretius

#90. The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#91. The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Dalai Lama

#92. The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, the richer the harvest.

Isidore Of Seville

#93. 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

#94. My roots are firmly planted in the glory of nature. The soil beneath my feet heartens each step.

Amy Leigh Mercree

#95. Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and is not a hothouse plant or an exotic

William Hazlitt

#96. Good God, with a bounty
Look down on Marion County,
For the soil is so pore, and so awful rooty, too,
I don't know what to God the pore folks gonna do.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#97. MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

Ambrose Bierce

#98. Everyone in the tribe believed in life after death and the spirit's ability to be reborn and live again in a new body. The undying soul was unquestioned. Did not the leaves fall off the tree and become part of the soil that nourished the tree which spouted new leaves?

M.J. Rose

#99. In the soil of the quick fix is the seed of a new problem, because our quiet wisdom is unavailable.

Wayne Muller

#100. When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?

Ann Voskamp