Soil Quotes

• Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

  Aldo Leopold

  Animal, Garden, Land

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.216, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.

  Wendell Berry

  Community, Age, Care

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.70, Counterpoint

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• Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.

  Albert Howard

  Garden, Civilization, Fertility

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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

  Erosion, Together, Depends

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• Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Teaching, Trials, Made

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 2: Sermons 54-106”, p.233, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• To feed our people we must first feed our soil

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  People, Firsts

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• A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

  Pam Brown

  Friendship, Silly, Weather

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• To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Nature, Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.379, Rajpal & Sons

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• The soil is the gift of God to the living.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gift From God

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”

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• If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh: only love can save us from climate change" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2013.

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  What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

  Meister Eckhart

  Excellence, Action, Harvest

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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• Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.

  John Keats

  Weed, Flower, Men

  John Keats (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Keats. A New Edition”, p.33

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• For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.

  Xenophanes

  Science, Earth, Matter

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• The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

  Wendell Berry

  Journey, Garden, Land

  "The Unsettling of America". Book by Wendell Berry, 1977.

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• We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Growth, Earth, Flesh

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.395, GENERAL PRESS

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• The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Nature, Science, Land

  Letter to all State Governors on a Uniform Soil Conservation Law, February 26, 1937.

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• Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Weed, Produce

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• While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Land, Civilization, People

  "The Des Moines Register" Newspaper, July 8, 1979.

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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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• The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Positive, Thank You

  Dalai Lama (1994). “The Path to Enlightenment”, p.105, Shambhala

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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

  Kings, Serfs, Tied

  "Odyssey". Poem by Homer,

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• Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

  Hugh Hammond Bennett

  Life, Nature, Men

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• Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sad, Education, Weed

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.426, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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