Soil Quotes

• 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
  • Opportunity
  • Growth
  • Soil

• Weeds don't need planting in well-drained soil; they don't ask for fertilizer or bits of rag to scare away the birds. They come without invitation; and they don't take the hint when you want them to go. Weeds are nobody's guests: More like squatters.

  

  Norman Nicholson
  • Soil
  • Weeds
  • Fertilizer

• 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
  • Moment
  • Dying
  • Start

• 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
  • Discovered
  • Soil
  • Postage Stamp

• But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Evil
  • Soil
  • Ploughshare

• The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter

  

  Joshua Reynolds
  • Mind
  • Soil
  • Exhausted

• Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Victim
  • Arts
  • Soil

• The best thing for you to do is shop at your local farmer's market and support the organic growers who are there. Because those are the guys who are taking care of the soil that is ultimately going to take care of us.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Support
  • Farmer
  • Farmers

• The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible.

  

  Albert Howard
  • Health
  • Soil
  • Indivisible

• Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light, The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow, Drops in a silent autumn night. All its allotted length of days The flower ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Night
  • Toil
  • Drops

• Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

  

  Berthold Auerbach
  • Joy
  • Gratitude
  • Soil

• He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Up
  • Sky
  • Owns

• 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
  • Genius
  • Soil
  • Minority

• 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
  • Together
  • Depends
  • Erosion

• The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Free
  • Service
  • Tree

• A soil adapted to the growth of plants, is necessarily prepared and carefully preserved; and, in the necessary waste of land which is inhabited, the foundation is laid for future continents, in order to support the system of the living world.

  

  James Hutton
  • Growth
  • Plants
  • Soil

• The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds - where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough - a modest living- and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Country
  • Poverty
  • Capitalists

• The cleanest souls are the easiest to soil.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Soul
  • Easiest
  • Cleanest

• The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Time
  • Childhood
  • Years

• The prophet is always at the mercy of events; nevertheless, I venture to conclude this book with the forecast that at least half the illnesses of mankind will disappear once our food supplies are raised from fertile soil and consumed in a fresh condition.

  

  Albert Howard
  • Disappear
  • Illnesses
  • Forecast

• My attempts at a lawn. Twice have we had the ground carefully dug up, and prepared; twice it has been sown with the best English seed... at considerable expense; ...and the end of all the trouble has been that a strong nor'wester has blown away both seed and soil, leaving only the hard, un-dug ground. ...there are the croquet things, lying idle in the verandah... they are likely to remain unused for ever.

  

  Bee Dawson
  • English
  • Seed
  • Attempts

• He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Imagine
  • Plant
  • Flowerpot

• Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.

  

  Plutarch
  • Nature
  • Learning
  • Teacher

• You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.

  

  William P. Young
  • Want
  • Embrace
  • Seeds

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