Soil Quotes - Page 24

• But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies.

  Adam Smith

  Children, Science, Climate

  Adam Smith (2010). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.83, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.

  James Allen

  Believe, Men, Long

  James Allen (2012). “As We Think, So We Are: James Allen's Guide to Transforming Our Lives”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon. So long as they occupy and cultivate it, they have a right to the soil. Nothing can be sold but such things as can be carried away

  Black Hawk

  Children, Native American, Land

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• The soil of Palestine still enjoys her sabbaths, and only waits for the return of her
  banished children, and the application of industry, commensurate with her agricultural
  capabilities, to burst once more into universal luxuriance, and be all that she ever was
  in the days of Solomon.

  John Lindsay

  Children, Waiting, Return

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• Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses

  Virgil

  Philosophy, Bears, Refuse

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• Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under careful cultivation from common soil.

  Herbert Simon

  Beautiful, Flower, Creativity

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• Love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it. Love is also the seed and milk and the fruit of the world, though we can partake of it in greed or reverence. We are born, we eat, and learn, and die. We leave a tracery of messages in the lives of others, a little shifting of the soil, a stone moved from here to there, a word uttered, a song, a poem left behind. I was here, each of these declare. I was here.

  Michael O'Brien

  Song, Love Is, Greed

  Michael O'Brien (2017). “Island of the World: A Novel”, p.7, Ignatius Press

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• Truth has to fall on fertile soil.

  Paula D'Arcy

  Fall, Fertile Soil, Fertile

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• A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long.... for weeding I use it delicately to nudge the soil loose from roots without breaking them.

  Sara Bonnett Stein

  Weed, Roots, Feet

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• My attempts at a lawn. Twice have we had the ground carefully dug up, and prepared; twice it has been sown with the best English seed... at considerable expense; ...and the end of all the trouble has been that a strong nor'wester has blown away both seed and soil, leaving only the hard, un-dug ground. ...there are the croquet things, lying idle in the verandah... they are likely to remain unused for ever.

  Bee Dawson

  Strong, Lying, Leaving

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• The pastor should always be pure in thought ... no impurity ought to pollute him who has undertaken the office of wiping away the stains in the hearts of others ... for the hand that would cleanse from dirt must be clean, lest, being itself sordid with clinging mire, it soil whatever it touches all the more.

  Pope Gregory I

  Heart, Past, Hands

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• Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

  John Dewey

  Lying, Mind

  John Dewey (2005). “Art as Experience”, p.24, Penguin

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• I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . . I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom

  Richard Wright

  Rain, Wind, Leaving

  Richard Wright (1997). “Richard Wright Reader”

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• He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

  Emily Bronte

  Care, Might, Imagine

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.476, Penguin

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• You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants that wait for the rain. You said they'd wait for years, if they had to; that they'd almost kill themselves before they grew again. But as soon as those first drops of water fall, those plants begin to stretch and spread their roots. They travel up through the soil and sand to reach the surface. There's a chance for them again.

  Lucy Christopher

  Lying, Rain, Fall

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.255, Scholastic Inc.

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• Confession is the act of inviting God to walk the acreage of our hearts. “There is a rock of greed over here, Father. I can’t budge it. And that tree of guilt near the fence? Its roots are long and deep. And may I show you some dry soil, too crusty for seed?” God’s seed grows better if the soil of the heart is cleared.

  Max Lucado

  Father, Heart, Roots

  Max Lucado (2011). “In the Grip of Grace -: Your Father Always Caught You. He Still Does.”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I believe I've put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon. I hope so. I hate to feel transplanted.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Hate, Believe, Roots

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.545, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead on her knees. The grass and soil were still warm from the day. She wanted to cry but she couldn't. The feeling was too deep.

  Jennifer Egan

  Dark, Blue, Sky

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.102, Anchor

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• Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch their films, read their literature, worship in their churches, and attend their schools. Every third-grade student in the United States is presented with the concept of Europeans discovering America as a "New World" with fertile soil, abundant gifts of nature, and glorious mountains and rivers. Only the most enlightened teachers will explain that this world certainly wasn't new to the millions of indigenous people who already lived here when Columbus arrived.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Teacher, Native American, School

  Wilma Mankiller, Gloria Steinem (2016). “Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women”, p.73, Fulcrum Publishing

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• No enunciation of the Truth will ever be complete, no method of training will ever be suitable for all temperaments, no one can do more than mark out the little plot of infinity which he intends to cultivate, and thrust in the spade, trusting that the soil may eventually be fruitful and free from weeds so far as the bounds he has set himself extend.

  Dion Fortune

  Weed, Training, Plot

  Dion Fortune (2017). “Esoteric Orders And Their Work”, p.78, Youcanprint

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• Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

  Carl Sagan

  Lying, Flower, Book

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.306, Ballantine Books

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• He should have seen this coming, but he hadn't. Of course she wouldn't want to move back to Wynette after everything that had happened to her there. But what about his family, his friends, his roots, which stretched so deep into that rocky soil he'd become part of it?

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Moving, Should Have, Roots

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• To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.

  Dee Brown

  Air, Water, Bird

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• Some people will always ground themselves very strongly in a piece of soil, a grandmother's property, a tiny plot of land, and that's great. But in the Age of Movement, there's no question that the number of people who don't - or can't - is growing exponentially.

  Pico Iyer

  Grandmother, Land, Numbers

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.

  Gustav Stresemann

  People, Offers, Extremist

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