Soil Erosion 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

topic: Together, Soil, Soil Erosion

The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental degradation, and resource waste. Any rational food-production system will emphasize the well-being of the soil-air-water biosphere, the creatures which inhabit it, and the human beings who depend upon it.

- Eliot Coleman

topic: Technology, Erosion, Air, Soil Erosion, Environmental Degradation

Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust itsvitality. It needs constant re-invigoration if it is not to become arid and sterile.

- Elizabeth Drew

topic: Language, Rich, Soil Erosion

There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority.

- Pratibha Patil

topic: Erosion, Effort, Authority, Soil Erosion

Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.

- Arthur Levitt Jr

source: "Fool.com: Doing Hard Time With Arthur Levitt [Special]". The Motley Fool Radio Show, www.fool.com. July 09, 2002.

topic: Past, Two, Erosion, Soil Erosion, Ethical Values

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

- Theresa May

topic: Erosion, Government, Liberty, Soil Erosion

Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage in the hands or prehistoric man. It has been going on ever since, wherever man's culture of the earth has bared the soil to rain and wind.

- Hugh Hammond Bennett

topic: Rain, Men, Erosion, Soil Erosion, Prehistoric

History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products of the soil. So direct, is the relationship between soil erosion, the productivity of the land, and the prosperity of people, that the history of mankind, to a considerable degree at least, may be interpreted in terms of the soil and what has happened to it as the result of human use.

- Hugh Hammond Bennett

topic: Struggle, Men, Erosion, Soil Erosion, Fertile Soil

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.

- Wangari Maathai

topic: Issues, Erosion, Logging, Soil Erosion

In Kenya, one of our biggest exports is coffee. Where do you grow coffee? You grow coffee in the land. To be able to grow coffee you need rain, you need special kinds of soils that are found on hillsides, and that means you have to protect that land from soil erosion so you don't lose the soil. You also want to make sure that when the rains come you're going to be able to hold that water and have it go into the ground so that the streams and the rivers keep flowing and the ground is relatively humid for these plants.

- Wangari Maathai

source: Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

topic: Rain, Coffee, Mean, Soil Erosion

There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth thistles as soil erosion devastates formerly arable land and deserts overtake fertile farms. Rivers and the atmosphere are polluted thoughtlessly and we are fearful of the consequences of a depleted ozone layer and the devastation of the greenhouse effect. We are not quite at home in our world, and somewhere in each of us there is a nostalgia for a paradise that has been lost.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Home, Rivers, Ozone, Soil Erosion, Ozone Layer

The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts.

- Wendell Berry

topic: Erosion, Long, Environmental, Soil Erosion, Topography

The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic to assume that the present economy would be just fine if only it would stop poisoning the air and water, or if only it would stop soil erosion, or if only it would stop degrading watersheds and forest ecosystems, or if only it would stop seducing children, or if only it would stop buying politicians, or if only it would give women and favored minorities an equitable share of the loot?

- Wendell Berry

source: Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”

topic: Children, Air, Ecosystems, Soil Erosion, Watersheds

The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it says it. To read like this is to set aside the ‘literariness’ of the work – the fact that it is a poem or play or novel, rather than an account of the incidence of soil erosion in Nebraska.

- Terry Eagleton

source: Terry Eagleton (2013). “How to Read Literature”, p.2, Yale University Press

topic: Mistake, Erosion, Play, Incidence, Soil Erosion