Soil Quotes - Page 17

• For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development.

  James Fallows

  Air, Safety, Water

  7 Copy quote

• Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate rock and the planet's green carpet, lifeless minerals are weathered from stones or decomposed from organic debris. Plants and microscopic animals eat these dead particles and recast them as living matter. In the soil, matter recrosses the boundary between living and dead; and, as we have seen, boundaries-edges-are where the most interesting and important events occur.

  Toby Hemenway

  Animal, Rocks, Important Events

  46 Copy quote

• The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. It was good for the skin to touch the earth and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth. Their tipis were built upon the earth and their altars were made of earth. The birds that flew into the air came to rest upon the earth and it was the final abiding place of all things that lived and grew. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Healing, Air, Feet

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.192, U of Nebraska Press

  97 Copy quote

  Show source

• The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals, water, and air; shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits and greens for people and wildlife.

  Toby Hemenway

  Garden, Yield, Air

  Toby Hemenway (2009). “Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-scale Permaculture”, p.175, Chelsea Green Publishing

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ronald Reagan was an actor. Not at all a factor, Just an employee of the country's real masters. Just like the Bushes, Clinton and Obama, Just another talkin' head tellin' lies on teleprompters. If you don't believe the theory, then argue with this logic: Why did Reagan and Obama both go after Gaddafi? We invaded sovereign soil, goin' after oil Takin' countries as a hobby paid for by the oil lobby, Same as Iraq and Afghanistan. And Ahmadinejad sayin' they comin' for Iran.

  Killer Mike

  Country, Real, Lying

  "Killer Mike: R.A.P. Music" by Evan Rytlewski, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2012.

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Mistake, Humorous, Errors

  7 Copy quote

• The blood of criminals fertilises the soil of liberty.

  Joseph Fouche

  Blood, Liberty, Criminals

  15 Copy quote

• Soil is a resource, a living, breathing entity that, if treated properly, will maintain itself. It's our lifeline for survival. When it has finally been depleted, the human population will disappear. . . . Project you imagination into the soil below you next time you go into the garden. Think with compassion of the life that exists there. Think, the drama, the sexuality, the harvesting, the work that carries on ceaselessly. Think about the meaning of being a steward for the earth.

  Marjorie Harris

  Life, Drama, Garden

  4 Copy quote

• Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.

  P. D. James

  Years, Care, Might

  5 Copy quote

• The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

  David Hume

  Weed, Genius, Philosopher

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.664, Delphi Classics

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.

  Al-Ghazali

  Soul, Humans, Seeds

  250 Copy quote

• We human beings are not only the beneficiaries but also the stewards of other creatures. Thanks to our bodies, God has joined us so closely to the world around us that we can feel the desertification of the soil almost as a physical ailment, and the extinction of a species as a painful disfigurement. Let us not leave in our wake a swatch of destruction and death which will affect our own lives and those of future generations.

  Pope Francis

  Generations, World, Body

  6 Copy quote

• The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers which are planted in too rich a soil, strenght state; usefulness are sacrificed to beauty; and the flaunting leaves, after having pleased a fastidious eye, fade, disregarded on the stalk, long before the season when they ought to have arrived at maturity.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Flower, Eye, Maturity

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1997). “The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Woman”, p.109, Broadview Press

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain.

  Theodor Herzl

  Roots, Giving, Wish

  Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Jews who will it shall achieve their State. We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and in our own homes peacefully die. The world will be liberated by our freedom, enriched by our wealth, magnified by our greatness. And whatever we attempt there for our own benefit will redound mightily and beneficially to the good of all mankind.

  Theodor Herzl

  Home, Men, Greatness

  Theodor Herzl, Ludwig Lewisohn (1955). “Theodor Herzl: a portrait for this age”

  168 Copy quote

  Show source

• My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land. In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such.

  Aldo Leopold

  Animal, Land, Water

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "The Land Ethic", p. 203-204, 1949.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafTs.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sex, Talking, Fake

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.58, Hamilton Books

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right to fix, by assize, the wages of the poor? If this is not slavery, we have forgotten its definition. Strike the right of associating for the sale of labor from the privileges of a freeman, and you may as well bind him to a master, or ascribe him to the soil.

  William C. Bryant

  Law, Justice, Generosity

  6 Copy quote

• You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Tree, Tears, Liberty

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.120, Lexington Books

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Literature, May, Lord

  11 Copy quote

• Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.

  Paul Valery

  Light, Tree, Plot

  7 Copy quote

• Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to be unburdened of it. And you go on collecting it as if it is something precious. Talk less, listen only to the essential, be telegraphic in talking and listening. If you talk less, if you listen less, slowly slowly you will see that a cleanliness, a feeling of purity, as if you have just taken a bath, will start arising within you. That becomes the necessary soil for meditation to arise. Don't go on reading all kinds of nonsense.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Reading, Talking

  16 Copy quote

• Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are to flower in the summer.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Summer, Flower, Winter

  6 Copy quote

• When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce. Maybe one thousandth of this aerial insecticide actually prevents the infestation. The balance goes to the leaves, into the soil, into the water, into all forms of wildlife, into ourselves. What is good for the balance sheet is wasteful of resources and harmful to life.

  Paul Hawken

  Dark, Order, Water

  14 Copy quote

• Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.

  John Dryden

  Nice, Honor, Bears

  7 Copy quote