Soil quotes
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
-- Ai Weiwei -
Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
-- Al-Ghazali -
God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy.
-- Alan Redpath -
The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible.
-- Albert Howard -
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There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.
-- Aldo Leopold -
Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it.
-- Aldo Leopold -
Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
-- Alexander Pope -
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 -
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If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position
-- Anatoly Karpov -
I still try to keep my eyes open. I'm always on the lookout for antlion traps in sandy soil, monarch pupae near milkweed, skipper larvae in locust leaves. These things are utterly common, and I've not seen one
-- Annie Dillard -
No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil.
-- Ashly Lorenzana -
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Anybody from my soil is my responsibility.
-- Asif Ali Zardari -
In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
-- Bayard Taylor -
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
-- Berthold Auerbach -
Jealousy takes root in the soil of insecurity.
-- Beth Moore -
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Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil.
-- Bill Jenkins -
Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
-- Brent Scowcroft -
Within the soil of a discouraging season can often be the seeds of incredible blessing, miracles and breakthrough!
-- Brian Houston -
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.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
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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 -
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
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 -
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 -
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One of the major problems is what we do to the soil, the air, the water and everything, we take in our food.
-- Charlotte Gerson -
Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.
-- Clifford D. Simak -
I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.
-- Cyril Cusack -
Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.
-- Dan Barber -
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Keep the soil healthy and the bad seed won't grow.
-- David Agus -
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
-- David Hume -
Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.
-- David Mitchell -
Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil
-- David Ricardo -
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Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground: the waves run, the ship stays put, but the impression of movement persists
-- Dmitri Volkogonov -
He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley. We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous.
-- Drew Bledsoe -
My music came up from the soil of North Carolina,
-- Earl Scruggs -
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What is working stain, does not soil.
-- Edmondo De Amicis -
You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . .
-- Edward Everett -
Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors of modern warfare on their own soil during World War II.
-- Eisaku Sato -
Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
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Whether they did or didn't, America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don't remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time.
-- Eric Bolling -
A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty
-- Eric Ries -
Progress in manufacturing is measured by the production of high quality goods. The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning-a rigorous method for demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme uncertainty.
-- Eric Ries -
But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru? Why are we supposed to be psychiatrists? Isn't it enough to write and tell the truth? It's not like telling the truth is common. Writers are the earthworms of society. We aerate the soil. That's enough.
-- Erica Jong -
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They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer.
-- Eugene Fitch Ware -
Luscious feet that listened to the soil and stole its secrets.
-- Fannie Hurst -
Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,- Freedom to worship God.
-- Felicia Hemans -
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We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood
-- Gamal Abdel Nasser -
All economic activity is dependent upon that environment and its underlying resource base of forests, water, air, soil, and minerals. When the environment is finally forced to file for bankruptcy because its resource base has been polluted, degraded, dissipated, and irretrievably compromised, the economy goes into bankruptcy with it.
-- Gaylord Nelson -
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.
-- Gustav Stresemann -
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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 -
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation They always presuppose a soil seeded with preliminary knowledge and well prepared by labour, both conscious and subconscious.
-- Henri Poincare -
Still young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soil'd, though fresh and new.
-- Henry Vaughan -
Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.
-- Ho Chi Minh -
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I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf ... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.
-- Homer -
No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love] There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene Only then I am human Only then I am clean
-- Hozier -
Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.
-- J. Frank Dobie -
The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration
-- J. I. Packer -
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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 -
I believe American manhood is too valuable to be sacrificed on foreign soil for foreign issues and causes.
-- J. Reuben Clark -
If the soil were as good as the harbors, it would be a blessing.
-- Jacques Cartier -
The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth.
-- Jacques Maritain -
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Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.
-- Jalal Talabani -
Soil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development
-- Jeffrey Sachs -
The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.
-- Jen Hatmaker -
I knew God wanted to do much more...and he would, if we provided good soil in which he could work.
-- Jim Cymbala -
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My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.
-- Jim Fowler -
The soil says, don't bring me your need, bring me your seed.
-- Jim Rohn -
The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.
-- Jim Rohn -
Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.
-- Joe Abercrombie -
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How dare you treat your soil like dirt!
-- Joel Salatin -
You can't chemical your way out of soil infertility
-- Joel Salatin -
The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to cultivate, and produces on the contrary strict necessity in the decisions of the will, the opposite being impossible. Such a will can henceforth be relied on with confidence and certainty.
-- Johann Gottlieb Fichte -
Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.
-- John Dewey -
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There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.
-- John F. Kennedy -
Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.
-- John Holdren -
The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.
-- John Lawson -
Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
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The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
-- Joseph Barber Lightfoot -
The blood of criminals fertilises the soil of liberty.
-- Joseph Fouche -
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.
-- Justus von Liebig -
Nosotros somos paisanos. We are fellow countrymen. We come from the same soil.
-- Kathi Appelt -
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Hell, I don't break the soil periodically to 'reaffirm my status'. I do it because archeology is still the most fun you can have with your pants on.
-- Kent V. Flannery -
God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built.
-- King Hussein I -
Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
-- Leonardo da Vinci -
One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth? We have our answer in the fertile soil which spreads over the temperate regions of the globe. The glacier was God's great plough.
-- Louis Agassiz -
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As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.
-- Louis Bromfield -
Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.
-- Louis Untermeyer -
Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued ...
-- Louise Imogen Guiney -
Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.
-- Lurlene McDaniel -
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To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
Israel cannot continue to exist in an atmosphere of peace and tranquillity without threats and aggression. If this regime stays on one inch of Palestine’s soil, it will continue its threats.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
All soils are not fertile.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
-- Margaret Atwood -
Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.
-- Margaret Atwood -
The human spirit is nurtured by praise, as much as a seedling is nurtured by the soil, the water and the sun.
-- Mario Fernandez -
I very much consider the Internet a garden, and I'm a gardener, and I plant things in it and I work within the framework of the soil, the seasons, the climate, and the temperature, to produce plants.
-- Mark Pesce -
