Charles Kellogg quotes

“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

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“Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is due to the influences of many things and events of the past.”
-- Charles Kellogg

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“Nature has endowed the earth with glorious wonders and vast resources that we may use for our own ends. Regardless of our tastes or our way of living, there are none that present more variations to tax our imagination than the soil, and certainly none so important to our ancestors, to ourselves, and to our children.”
-- Charles Kellogg

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“As a farmer, man himself became closely attached to the landscape, firmly rooted to the soil that supported him. At times the soil seemed bountiful and kindly and again stubborn and unfriendly, but it was always a challenge to man's cunning.”
-- Charles Kellogg

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“Civilization has its roots in the soil.”
-- Charles Kellogg

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“If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.”

“Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.”

“I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.”

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

“Let the sky fall, when it crumbles - We will stand tall - Face it all together”

“We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.”

“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.”

“Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.”

“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.”

“Within the soil of a discouraging season can often be the seeds of incredible blessing, miracles and breakthrough!”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 4, 2013