Soil Quotes - Page 2

• If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.

  David Suzuki

  Air, Water, Positive Energy

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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

  Children, Imagination, Important

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• Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

  William Arthur Ward

  Optimism, Doubt, Vaults

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

  Brian Houston

  Inspirational, Blessing, Often Is

  Twitter post from Oct 4, 2013

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• The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

  Jim Rohn

  Work, Miracle, Labor Day

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 10, 2017

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• Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Flower, Plants Growing, Color

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• Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Pain, Suffering, Pain And Suffering

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• Soil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Challenges, Pillars, Development

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• We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Wind, Car

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Dying, Looks

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.83, NYU Press

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• When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in no danger of mistaking it for a commodity, or a fuel, or a collection of chemical nutrients. No, in the eye of the cook or the gardener ... this food reveals itself for what it is: no mere thing but a web of relationships among a great many living beings, some of them human, some not, but each of them dependent on each other, and all of them ultimately rooted in soil and nourished by sunlight.

  Michael Pollan

  Eye, Cooking, Alive

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• People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Mother, Nature, Memories

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• It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Garden, Sowing, Road To Success

  Orison Swett Marden (1916). “Everybody Ahead: Or, Getting the Most Out of Life”

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• Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

  Ben Stein

  Life, Motivational, Relationship

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• There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.

  Aldo Leopold

  Spiritual, Two, Supposing That

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.6, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Movement, Body, Celestial Bodies

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• Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Recovery, Men, Giving Love

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• Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Space, Water

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.93, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Teach your sweet child to leave the beautiful flowers in the soil.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Sweet, Children

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• 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

  Rain, Men, Agriculture

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• Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Dry, Common, Wells

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• I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.

  Walt Whitman

  Looks, Want, Dirt

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.83, NYU Press

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• Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hope, Hero, Giving

  "Vaclav Havel Dead: The Quotes Of The Man Who 'Lived In Truth'" by Paul Vale, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. December 18, 2011.

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• Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Understanding, Fruit, Grows

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• Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Freedom, Tree

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.594, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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