Quotes about Soil

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. Votes: 7

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. Votes: 6

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life. Votes: 6

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. Votes: 5

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. Votes: 5

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. Votes: 4

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. Votes: 4

We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil. Votes: 4

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. Votes: 4

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. Votes: 4

I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf ... than be king of all these dead and destroyed. Votes: 4

While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil. Votes: 4

Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together. Votes: 4

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

The fate of the soil system depends on society's willingness to intervene in the market place, and to forego some of the short-term benefits that accrue from 'mining' the soil so that soil quality and fertility can be maintained over the longer term. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity. Votes: 3

Soil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development Votes: 3

Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters Votes: 3

The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life. Votes: 3

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds. Votes: 3

Walk ten meters, you will find the lust; walk thousand miles, you may find the love! Soil is everywhere; but gold is somewhere! Votes: 3

Soil is a living ecosystem and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil. Votes: 3

Soil is a living ecosystem, and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil. Votes: 3

Just Enough Soil for legs Axe for hands Flower for eyes Bird for ears Mushrooms for nose Smile for mouth Songs for lungs Sweat for skin Wind for mind. Votes: 3

Studying wine taught me that there was a very big difference between soil and dirt: dirt is to soul what zombies are to humans. Soil is full of life, while dirt is devoid of it. Votes: 3

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. Votes: 2

Cinema should always be in touch with the soil of the country. My films celebrate the heartland of India. Votes: 2

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them. Votes: 2

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil. Votes: 2

New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions. Votes: 2

What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children! Votes: 2

I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years. Votes: 2

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. Votes: 2

It's very difficult to tell someone how to protect themselves from a terrorist attack, whether it occurs in the U.S. or on foreign soil, particularly when you have terrorists with no concern for human life. Votes: 2

My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion. Votes: 2

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment. Votes: 2

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. Votes: 2

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality. Votes: 2

The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time. Votes: 2

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom. Votes: 2

We do not wish to have nuclear weapons on New Zealand soil or in our harbors. We do not ask, we do not expect, the United States to come to New Zealand's assistance with nuclear weapons or to present American nuclear capability as a deterrent to an attacker. Votes: 2

Commercial institutions, proud of their achievements, do not see that healthy living systems - clean air and water, healthy soil, stable climates - are integral to a functioning economy. As our living systems deteriorate, traditional forecasting and business economics become the equivalent of house rules on a sinking cruise ship. Votes: 2

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole. Votes: 2

For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, 'Where's your home?' I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be. Votes: 2

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits. Votes: 2

Everything is mended by the soil. Votes: 0

Saints can spring from any soil. Votes: 0

I pledge allegiance to the soil Votes: 0

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity. Votes: 0

All that foreign oil controlling American soil. Votes: 0

Essentially, all life depends upon the soil Votes: 0

Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil. Votes: 0

Anybody from my soil is my responsibility. Votes: 0

Every soil does not produce every material. Votes: 0

Truth has to fall on fertile soil. Votes: 0

Civilization has its roots in the soil. Votes: 0

That dark laboratory we call the soil. Votes: 0

What is working stain, does not soil. Votes: 0

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives. Votes: 0

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil. Votes: 0

Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment. Votes: 0

How dare you treat your soil like dirt! Votes: 0

Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds. Votes: 0

Trials are the soil in which faith flourishes. Votes: 0

The cleanest souls are the easiest to soil. Votes: 0

Complicated feelings are fertile soil for creative ideas. Votes: 0

Jealousy takes root in the soil of insecurity. Votes: 0

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil. Votes: 0

The blood of criminals fertilises the soil of liberty. Votes: 0

Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil. Votes: 0

You can't chemical your way out of soil infertility Votes: 0

Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. Votes: 0

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds. Votes: 0

Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization. Votes: 0

We can all produce good fruits with fertile soil. Votes: 0

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. Votes: 0

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina, Votes: 0

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw. Votes: 0

Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty. Votes: 0

Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding. Votes: 0

People floating like pollen in search of more fertile soil. Votes: 0

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey. Votes: 0

The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer. Votes: 0

He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky. Votes: 0

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses Votes: 0

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows. Votes: 0

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage. Votes: 0

The soil is the gift of God to the living. Votes: 0

To feed our people we must first feed our soil Votes: 0

Keep the soil healthy and the bad seed won't grow. Votes: 0

The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self. Votes: 0

Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers. Votes: 0

Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil. Votes: 0

I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre. Votes: 0

A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection. Votes: 0

No gassing took place in any camp on Germany soil. Votes: 0

As my daddy said, soil is the basis of everything. Votes: 0

Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands. Votes: 0

Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change. Votes: 0

Under natural conditions, the soil does not lose its fixed nitrogen. Votes: 0

Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune. Votes: 0

Luscious feet that listened to the soil and stole its secrets. Votes: 0

Freedom's soil hath only place For a free and fearless race! Votes: 0

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil. Votes: 0

Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it. Votes: 0

I believe in gardening the soil as well as the soul. Votes: 0

One cannot grow beauty in the soil of hate and pain. Votes: 0

Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil. Votes: 0

Mother is the home we come from. She is nature, soil, ocean. Votes: 0

The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible. Votes: 0

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds. Votes: 0

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship. Votes: 0

Teach your sweet child to leave the beautiful flowers in the soil. Votes: 0

Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole Votes: 0

Optimism will grow like a flower if the soil be properly prepared. Votes: 0

Our Jihad will remain on Palestinian soil that is wide and large. Votes: 0

Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil. Votes: 0

The soil says, don't bring me your need, bring me your seed. Votes: 0

I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud. Votes: 0

The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil. Votes: 0

Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil. Votes: 0

For mine is the old belief... There is a soil in every leaf. Votes: 0

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath. Votes: 0

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God's Word. Votes: 0

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms. Votes: 0

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration Votes: 0

Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves. Votes: 0

The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil;They exist and that is all. Votes: 0

Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists. Votes: 0

. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil. Votes: 0

Nosotros somos paisanos. We are fellow countrymen. We come from the same soil. Votes: 0

[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government. Votes: 0

Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted. Votes: 0

We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot. Votes: 0

The ashes of your existence will fertilize the soil for the universe to follow. Votes: 0

Human beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in. Votes: 0

A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity. Votes: 0

The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men. Votes: 0

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind. Votes: 0

Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort. Votes: 0

If the soil were as good as the harbors, it would be a blessing. Votes: 0

Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil. Votes: 0

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty Votes: 0

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine. Votes: 0

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Votes: 0

Over time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse. Votes: 0

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different. Votes: 0

No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil. Votes: 0

The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth. Votes: 0

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil. Votes: 0

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil. Votes: 0

A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms. Votes: 0

Weeds play an important part in building soil fertility and in balancing the biological community . . . Votes: 0

Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane. Votes: 0

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals. Votes: 0

I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil. Votes: 0

The seed of an urban legend find fertile soil at the corner of tragedy and imagination. Votes: 0

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection. Votes: 0

Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution. Votes: 0

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades? Votes: 0

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds. Votes: 0

We will have no mercy for white people regarding the land, they cannot own our soil. Votes: 0

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil. Votes: 0

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it. Votes: 0

In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater. Votes: 0

But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more. Votes: 0

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment. Votes: 0

Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths. Votes: 0

Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens. Votes: 0

O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent Votes: 0

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil. Votes: 0

It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil. Votes: 0

It is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without a proper respect for the soil. Votes: 0

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy. Votes: 0

You have stirred the soil with your plow, my friend. It will never be the same again. Votes: 0

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues. Votes: 0

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love. Votes: 0

The soil of a man's heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it. Votes: 0

You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed. Votes: 0

All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil. Votes: 0

I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war. Votes: 0

There are many good seeds in you. Therefore you must avoid every bad soil in the world. Votes: 0

The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized. Votes: 0

O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree, So scant of grass, so profligate of pines Votes: 0

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread. Votes: 0

It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil. Votes: 0

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil. Votes: 0

Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat. Votes: 0

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder. Votes: 0

The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake. Votes: 0

Within the soil of a discouraging season can often be the seeds of incredible blessing, miracles and breakthrough! Votes: 0

But human borders mean nothing to air, water, windblown soil or seeds or migrating fish, birds or mammals. Votes: 0

I believe American manhood is too valuable to be sacrificed on foreign soil for foreign issues and causes. Votes: 0

We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley. We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous. Votes: 0

You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people. Votes: 0

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind. Votes: 0

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind. Votes: 0

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest. Votes: 0

We cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil. Votes: 0

Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds. Votes: 0

Friends , the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests . Votes: 0

In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back. Votes: 0

A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists. Votes: 0

We are very fortunate to have someone else's weapons stationed on our soil, to fight those targeted on us. Votes: 0

Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life Votes: 0

With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil. Votes: 0

Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual. Votes: 0

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes. Votes: 0

Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it. Votes: 0

[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil]. Votes: 0

There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet. Votes: 0

Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness. Votes: 0

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. Votes: 0

You want to do something good for the flowers? Then, keep the flowers in the soil, in nowhere else! Votes: 0

If your faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil. Votes: 0

We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. Votes: 0

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget. Votes: 0

Every time it rains, the soil counts every drop to know exactly how many times to thank to God! Votes: 0

There isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man Votes: 0

Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride. Votes: 0

A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings. Votes: 0

Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. Votes: 0

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor. Votes: 0

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period. Votes: 0

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements. Votes: 0

If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. Votes: 0

Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position Votes: 0

And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature? Votes: 0

It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit. Votes: 0

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt. Votes: 0

What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start. Votes: 0

Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country. Votes: 0

I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate. Votes: 0

Still young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soil'd, though fresh and new. Votes: 0

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil? Votes: 0

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. Votes: 0

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light. Votes: 0

In the soil of the quick fix is the seed of a new problem, because our quiet wisdom is unavailable. Votes: 0

But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost. Votes: 0

My mind mends my motives and my notion navigates my natives,for we all are made of soil-our corrupted soil. Votes: 0

Sturdy gospel roots that go deep into rich spiritual soil strengthen and steady us in times of trial and difficulty. Votes: 0

Wanna play a joke on your chiropractor? The next time he starts working on you, go limp and soil yourself. Votes: 0

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. Votes: 0

You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you're prepared to defend yourself. Votes: 0

The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth - soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife. Votes: 0

Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives. Votes: 0

You know, if you play on home soil sometimes funny things can happen and you have that push of the crowd. Votes: 0

I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive. Votes: 0

It is impossible for any culture to be sound and healthy without a proper respect and proper regard for the soil. Votes: 0

He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman. Votes: 0

For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul. Votes: 0

There are also kinds of water that cause death, as they run through harmful juices in the soil and become poisonous. Votes: 0

I believe I've put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon. I hope so. I hate to feel transplanted. Votes: 0

Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply. Votes: 0

A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself. Votes: 0

We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood Votes: 0

Out of the long list of nature's gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil. Votes: 0

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it. Votes: 0

The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass. Votes: 0

The starting point for creativity is silence... the creative soil of silence, where can be found the seed-states of all things... Votes: 0

War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace. Votes: 0

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free. Votes: 0

I knew God wanted to do much more...and he would, if we provided good soil in which he could work. Votes: 0

How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil. Votes: 0

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation. Votes: 0

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government. Votes: 0

evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in. Votes: 0

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. Votes: 0

Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued ... Votes: 0

No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind of growth. Votes: 0

In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow. Votes: 0

The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down. Votes: 0

Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray. Votes: 0

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. Votes: 0

The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128 Votes: 0

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil. Votes: 0

Wherever you have a plot of land, however small, plant a garden. Staying close to the soil is good for the soul. Votes: 0

I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil. Votes: 0

The human spirit is nurtured by praise, as much as a seedling is nurtured by the soil, the water and the sun. Votes: 0

In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . . Votes: 0

Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood. Votes: 0

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. Votes: 0

Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize. Votes: 0

For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood. Votes: 0

The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt. Votes: 0

Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips. Votes: 0

Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossombut only if you plant the seeds. Votes: 0

It is a heavy downpour of rain which drenches the soil to fullness; likewise only a profuse shower of love can overcome hatred. Votes: 0

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe. Votes: 0

One of the major problems is what we do to the soil, the air, the water and everything, we take in our food. Votes: 0

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud. Votes: 0

A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil. Votes: 0

There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources. Votes: 0

Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds. Votes: 0

We are dependent on each other. Therefore, replenishing the soil, replenishing society and being part of one continuum - that's the new story. Votes: 0

I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around. Votes: 0

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit Votes: 0

Flowers represent hope for us; but we do not represent hope for them! Let us keep the flowers in the soil; no plucking! Votes: 0

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents. Votes: 0

Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it. Votes: 0

I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it. Votes: 0

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil. Votes: 0

Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil. Votes: 0

Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,- Freedom to worship God. Votes: 0

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture. Votes: 0

Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil. Votes: 0

Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony? Votes: 0

Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom...but only if you plant the seeds. Votes: 0

I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees. Votes: 0

Really, what [sea] ice does is it acts like a garden. … Losing that ice is like losing the soil in a garden. Votes: 0

Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. Votes: 0

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life. Votes: 0

Dying away from home, away from the soil of your birth - and to do so unseen and unmourned - is a profound horror. Votes: 0

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts. Votes: 0

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts." Votes: 0

You know your gut instincts are spot on about a person when you can also detect a water source in the soil beneath them. Votes: 0

As soon as I put my foot on Indian soil, my painting underwent a change not only in subject and spirit but in technique. Votes: 0

As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil;So will a man's reason vary with the quality of his friends. Votes: 0

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil. Votes: 0

Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom, but only if you plant the seeds. Votes: 0

For the Flower to blossom, you need the right soil as well as the right seed. The same is true to cultivate good thinking. Votes: 0

We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots? Votes: 0

He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil. Votes: 0

Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil. Votes: 0

Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear transplanting. Votes: 0

Till your mental soil with determination. Fertilize your emotional soil with positive words. And plant the seed of your heart's desire with your disciplined efforts. Votes: 0

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil. Votes: 0

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil. Votes: 0

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable. Votes: 0

The professional will not tolerate disorder... He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown. Votes: 0

In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it. Votes: 0

We are born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live on the same land, and why should we not be brothers and sisters? Votes: 0

Clouds, leaves, soil, and wind all offer themselves as signals of changes in the weather. However, not all the storms of life can be predicted. Votes: 0

Beautiful rocks - beautiful grass Beautiful soil where they both combine Beautiful river - covering sky Never thought of possession, but all this was mine. Votes: 0

Whether they did or didn't, America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don't remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time. Votes: 0

In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites. Votes: 0

We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too. Votes: 0

Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power? Votes: 0

When logics die, The secret of the soil grows through the eye, And blood jumps in the sun; Above the waste allotments the dawn halts. Votes: 0

You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed. Votes: 0

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them. Votes: 0

In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents. Votes: 0

Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil Votes: 0

If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows. Votes: 0

With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there is no future. Votes: 0

Meditation is like farming... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard. Votes: 0

You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . . Votes: 0

[Donald] Trump, whether he designed it or not, happens to be the first thing in the news on UK soil the day after the Brexit vote. Votes: 0

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots. Votes: 0

At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground. Votes: 0

Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white flower of immortal beauty Votes: 0

War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything else goes with it. Votes: 0

I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it. Votes: 0

[Donald] Trump, whether he designed it or not, happens to be the first thing in the news on UK soil the day after the Brexit vote. Votes: 0

Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world, with clean air, water, soil and power – economically, equitably, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed. Votes: 0

We're using satellites to help map and model cultural features that could never be seen on the ground because they're obscured by modernization, forests, or soil. Votes: 0

The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up. Votes: 0

The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil. Votes: 0

To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world. Votes: 0

Iraq will not allow any action on its soil that could harm the U.S. We don't want any action from our soil to target our neighbors. Votes: 0

Treating everyone she met like family, and burying needless critism of others so deep beneath the soil of everyday living that only kindness ever saw the light. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But we have to look after mother nature so she can look after us - the water, the soil, the air and all the life within it. Votes: 0

The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand. Votes: 0

ahhhh...organic and rich like good soil... makes me want to listen and hear it grow. the songs are honest and dimensional. it's music to my ears. Votes: 0

In Aleppo we had the missile itself, and the material, and the sample from the sand, from the soil, and samples from the blood [of chemical weapons]. Votes: 0

Ah, never shall the land forget How gush'd the life-blood of the brave, Gush'd warm with hope and courage yet, Upon the soil they fought to save! Votes: 0

We wish Pakistan both stability and security; we expect them to understand our legitimate concerns of preventing people from using its soil to inflict problem in India. Votes: 0

The certain way to victory...lies in making everything on Imperial soil contribute to the war effort...combining the total material and spiritual strength of the nation... Votes: 0

The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal. Votes: 0

There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall! Votes: 0

We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them. Votes: 0

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is. Votes: 0

Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein. Votes: 0

Let all the green leaves be mineas long as the trees define shades created by their limbsfor the soil made with victimsof atrocity's vileness to redeem the fragileness Votes: 0

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead. Votes: 0

Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation. Votes: 0

It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves. Votes: 0

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man. Votes: 0

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes. Votes: 0

To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at injustice and cruelty. Votes: 0

The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil, we often find diamonds. Votes: 0

The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their "soil," but will tell you that it is good enough for them to dry their fish on. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Hell, I don't break the soil periodically to 'reaffirm my status'. I do it because archeology is still the most fun you can have with your pants on. Votes: 0

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile. Votes: 0

As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it. Votes: 0

The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck. Votes: 0

By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain the swamp in which diseased emotions breed. Votes: 0

Let the flower of compassion blossom in the rich soil of maître, and water it with the good water of equanimity in the cool, refreshing shade of joy. Votes: 0

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots. Votes: 0

If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art. Votes: 0

Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature. Votes: 0

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world. Votes: 0

Unless our souls had root in soil divine We could not bear earth's overwhelming strife. The fiercest pain that racks this heart of mine, Convinces me of everlasting life. Votes: 0

Proliferation of fanatical religious terrorists with safe harbors in broken countries, and the means to obtain and the will to use nuclear, chemical and biological weapons on our soil. Votes: 0

I couldn't have invented crisps. ... I don't really want to be known as the man who invented crisps. ... I invented apples. ... I invented pandas, and caps. I invented soil. Votes: 0

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

At either end of any food chain you find a biological system-a patch of soil, a human body-and the health of one is connected-literally-to the health of the other. Votes: 0

... if I wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study and help it to the utmost, untiringly. .... Always, the soil must come first. Votes: 0

Negative people talk and your dreams begin to wither off. But they begin to sprout in the fragrance of hope when they find a new soil! Change your environment! Votes: 0

No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court. Votes: 0

We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil. Votes: 0

The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks. Votes: 0

The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks." Votes: 0

Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil. Votes: 0

Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends. Votes: 0

The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool. Votes: 0

Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists... Votes: 0

Seeds, there are seeds enough which need only be stirred in with the soil where they lie, by an inspired voice or pen, to bear fruit of a divine flavor. Votes: 0

Don't be discouraged when your life boils hot. With just a little more toil, you'll reap from the soil. More oil to your elbows. Stay awake and make it happen! Votes: 0

Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and is not a hothouse plant or an exotic Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

Roots cannot grow into trees if there are no supernatural elements in the soil. Man cannot grow wealthy and famous if he doesn't contribute to either, the good or evil. Votes: 0

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground. Votes: 0

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in. Votes: 0

Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity Votes: 0

The man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents. Votes: 0

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. Votes: 0

In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop. Votes: 0

The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong. Votes: 0

For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black man's humanity was not recognized. Votes: 0

For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black mans humanity was not recognized. Votes: 0

My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content! Votes: 0

I know that wine is, above all else, a blessing, a gift of nature, a joy as pure and elemental as the soil and vines and sunshine from which it springs. Votes: 0

In future, lots of things will be made from beans and fibres grown on the farmers' fields. This new science is called chemurgy. Plastics, for industry, will come from the soil. Votes: 0

Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil. Votes: 0

I believe that it's vital for children and teens to be educated, to be given information to help them understand the impacts humans are having on our water, soil, and air. Votes: 0

The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, the richer the harvest. Votes: 0

From a scientific point of view, we now know that the water is interlaced with the lunar soil in many locations, perhaps as remnants of comet collisions with the lunar surface. Votes: 0

Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. Votes: 0

One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the moment he sets foot on British soil. Votes: 0

I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture. Votes: 0

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. Votes: 0

After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones? Votes: 0

I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality Votes: 0

I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil. Votes: 0

Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil. Votes: 0

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know. Votes: 0

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius. Votes: 0

It was easy to believe when everything was good. But when bad things happened, doubt sowed its seed in fertile soil and burrowed deep. It was my duty to root it out. Votes: 0

What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give it. Votes: 0

The kind of soil in your area determines the type of crop you will plant to harvest; The kind of potentials in you will decide the type of success you will celebrate. Votes: 0

Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one. Votes: 0

To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil, is enough to make a good farmer sick at heart. Votes: 0

What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give to it. Votes: 0

All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people. Votes: 0

Gratitude. More aware of what you have than what you don't. Recognizing the treasure in the simple - a child's hug, fertile soil, a golden sunset. Relishing in the comfort of the common. Votes: 0

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow. Votes: 0

I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil. Votes: 0

Two things I ask of my God today. That my faith be hoisted high like a kite up in the sky and my fear be buried deeply like a carcass into the soil. Votes: 0

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us. Votes: 0

All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people. Votes: 0

The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory! Votes: 0

We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands: We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl, We progress, and we prog from pole to pole. Votes: 0

Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end! Votes: 0

I did not get over the loss of my loved ones; rather, I absorbed the loss into my life, like soil receives decaying matter, until it became a part of who I am. Votes: 0

We've gotten so far away from our food source. It's been hijacked from us. But if you get soil, plant something in it and water it, you can feed yourself. It's that simple. Votes: 0

Who ordained that the few should have the land (of Britain) as a prerequisite; who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth? Votes: 0

Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring - that delicious commingling of the perfume of arbutus, the odor of pines, and the snow - soaked soil just warming into life. Votes: 0

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields. Votes: 0

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish. Votes: 0

Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is due to the influences of many things and events of the past. Votes: 0

There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace. Votes: 0

There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being. Votes: 0

The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful. Votes: 0

... but as he no longer stands on his native soil, his art can't possibly have roots. An artist creates true art for his people only as long as he lives, and suffers, among them. Votes: 0

It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is the slow product of the age long growth of the national life. Votes: 0

The labouring man that tills the fertile soil,And reaps the harvest fruit, hath not indeedThe gain, but pain; and if for all his toilHe gets the straw, the lord will have the seed. Votes: 0

This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay. Votes: 0

If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long. Votes: 0

And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body! Votes: 0

It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky. Votes: 0

War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what soil conditions it grows, where it plays havoc, and how it is eliminated. Votes: 0

If I pleaded guilty to a mistake while I was home secretary, it wasn't that I didn't get tough - my God, I put immigration and security officials on French soil for the first time. Votes: 0

Habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has the least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock. Votes: 0