Soil Quotes

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.

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.

Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.

Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray.

Teach your sweet child to leave the beautiful flowers in the soil.

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.

Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.

One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the moment he sets foot on British soil.

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil; They exist and that is all.

The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful.

[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.

In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it.

Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

The certain way to victory...lies in making everything on Imperial soil contribute to the war effort...combining the total material and spiritual strength of the nation...

Iraq will not allow any action on its soil that could harm the U.S. We don't want any action from our soil to target our neighbors.

That dark laboratory we call the soil.

Civilization has its roots in the soil.

The starting point for creativity is silence... the creative soil of silence, where can be found the seed-states of all things.

Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.

Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

Soil is a living ecosystem and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.

To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

Proliferation of fanatical religious terrorists with safe harbors in broken countries, and the means to obtain and the will to use nuclear, chemical and biological weapons on our soil.

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

One cannot grow beauty in the soil of hate and pain.

The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt.

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.

Unless our souls had root in soil divine We could not bear earth's overwhelming strife. The fiercest pain that racks this heart of mine, Convinces me of everlasting life.

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.

It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

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

How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it?

A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.

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.

Keep the soil healthy and the bad seed won't grow.