Quotes and Sayings About Soil
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
