Soil Quotes

A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection.

And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

Luscious feet that listened to the soil and stole its secrets.

We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands: We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl, We progress, and we prog from pole to pole.

If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.

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

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.

Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his new habitat, was deprived of the chance to plunge his roots firmly into the new soil.

A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.

War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything goes with it.

The seed must move to the soil; the tree must turn to the sun. The river must leave its source to reach the sea. And man must forget man, the maker, in order to make the world.

The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their "soil," but will tell you that it is good enough for them to dry their fish on.

The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.

The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck.

Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.

Seeds, there are seeds enough which need only be stirred in with the soil where they lie, by an inspired voice or pen, to bear fruit of a divine flavor.

Still young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soil'd, though fresh and new.

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.

Treating everyone she met like family, and burying needless critism of others so deep beneath the soil of everyday living that only kindness ever saw the light.

The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up.

The cleanest souls are the easiest to soil.

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.

O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree, So scant of grass, so profligate of pines

The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.

I knew God wanted to do much more...and he would, if we provided good soil in which he could work.

You can't chemical your way out of soil infertility

If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.

With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil.

Saints can spring from any soil.

I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to the life of which that one constituent is indispensable.

Nosotros somos paisanos. We are fellow countrymen. We come from the same soil.

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.

Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear transplanting.

Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds.

Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued.

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.

I believe I've put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon. I hope so. I hate to feel transplanted.

The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.

In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.

Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock.

All soils are not fertile.

Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.