Soil Quotes
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Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
Abraham Lincoln -
Nobody will be allowed to use Pakistan soil for any form of aggression toward any friend or foe.
Asif Ali Zardari
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Anybody from my soil is my responsibility.
Asif Ali Zardari -
While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.
Ma Jun -
Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.
Albert Howard -
The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.
William McKinley -
It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
Orison Swett Marden -
What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start.
Nancy Gibbs
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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.
Dan Barber -
If the soil were as good as the harbors, it would be a blessing.
Jacques Cartier -
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Edmund Burke -
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.
Charles Wagner -
Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.
Dan Barber
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Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.
Dorothy Dunnett -
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
Plutarch -
Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.
William Arthur Ward -
Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.
Aristotle -
When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.
Rene Redzepi -
History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
Will Durant
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The moment we turn over the soil we start poisoning it and we go on poisoning it all the way through... and there's probably not a river in the United States that doesn't have pesticide poisoning in it. The fish are dying. The seas are getting polluted. All of these things are happening. The rain forests are going. That's what the context is.
W. S. Merwin -
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.
Chogyam Trungpa -
No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind of growth.
Ha Jin -
For the Flower to blossom, you need the right soil as well as the right seed. The same is true to cultivate good thinking.
William Bernbach