What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. Votes: 6
Meister EckhartThe soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. Votes: 5
Wendell BerryTrials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. Votes: 5
Charles SpurgeonWe might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil. Votes: 4
Leonardo da VinciI would rather be tied to the soil as a serf ... than be king of all these dead and destroyed. Votes: 4
HomerSoil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development Votes: 3
Jeffrey SachsSoil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters Votes: 3
George MonbiotThe Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life. Votes: 3
John LawsonA Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds. Votes: 3
Benjamin FranklinStill this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEven the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciNosotros somos paisanos. We are fellow countrymen. We come from the same soil. Votes: 0
Kathi Appelt. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil. Votes: 0
Roy WilkinsDemocracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists. Votes: 0
Ai WeiweiWe know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot. Votes: 0
Leonardo da Vinci[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonMythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauThe ashes of your existence will fertilize the soil for the universe to follow. Votes: 0
Richard KadreyHuman beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in. Votes: 0
Sara Jeannette DuncanFacts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort. Votes: 0
Dorothy DunnettA limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms. Votes: 0
Orrin WoodwardGreat literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil. Votes: 0
J. Frank DobieUntil you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil. Votes: 0
Brian TracyIt may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Votes: 0
Desmond TutuOver time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse. Votes: 0
Patti Callahan HenryIraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different. Votes: 0
Jalal TalabaniA Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty Votes: 0
Eric RiesThe constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauPure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil. Votes: 0
Edwin Hubbel ChapinIf you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine. Votes: 0
John HarrisonIn parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater. Votes: 0
Jared DiamondThe richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds. Votes: 0
David HumeColonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution. Votes: 0
Ho Chi MinhHuman beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection. Votes: 0
John PowellMust I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades? Votes: 0
John MiltonBut every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheReason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment. Votes: 0
Khalil GibranFor just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithHuman beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonI have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil. Votes: 0
Douglas MacArthurI take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil. Votes: 0
Martin HeideggerLet none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane. Votes: 0
John MiltonThe seed of an urban legend find fertile soil at the corner of tragedy and imagination. Votes: 0
Thomm QuackenbushWe will have no mercy for white people regarding the land, they cannot own our soil. Votes: 0
Robert MugabeHistory is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it. Votes: 0
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTo call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love. Votes: 0
George SantayanaYou have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed. Votes: 0
William P. YoungAll that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil. Votes: 0
William Butler YeatsYou have stirred the soil with your plow, my friend. It will never be the same again. Votes: 0
Martha OstensoIt is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil. Votes: 0
Leon TrotskyIt is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without a proper respect for the soil. Votes: 0
Peter MaurinLike the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues. Votes: 0
John DeweyO land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree, So scant of grass, so profligate of pines Votes: 0
Jean ToomerThe tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread. Votes: 0
Joseph Barber LightfootThere are many good seeds in you. Therefore you must avoid every bad soil in the world. Votes: 0
Israelmore AyivorUntilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind. Votes: 0
Teresa of AvilaArchitecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder. Votes: 0
Daniel LibeskindUntilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind. Votes: 0
Teresa of ÁvilaIt is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest. Votes: 0
Orison Swett MardenWe cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil. Votes: 0
Henri NouwenLife is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds. Votes: 0
Richard Paul EvansFriends , the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests . Votes: 0
NovalisIt is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil. Votes: 0
Vagit AlekperovSadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat. Votes: 0
Radhanath SwamiThere isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man Votes: 0
Oliver CromwellMy music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. Votes: 0
Ray CharlesThe miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor. Votes: 0
Jim RohnWhere grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeSpade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride. Votes: 0
William WordsworthA grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings. Votes: 0
Anton ChekhovEvery time it rains, the soil counts every drop to know exactly how many times to thank to God! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanA soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period. Votes: 0
John Lothrop MotleyYou want to do something good for the flowers? Then, keep the flowers in the soil, in nowhere else! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanOur native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget. Votes: 0
OvidIf your faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil. Votes: 0
Billy GrahamWe will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. Votes: 0
Barack ObamaStill young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soil'd, though fresh and new. Votes: 0
Henry VaughanOptimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt. Votes: 0
William Arthur WardThere can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements. Votes: 0
Aldo LeopoldIn the soil of the quick fix is the seed of a new problem, because our quiet wisdom is unavailable. Votes: 0
Wayne MullerBut men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauFor more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul. Votes: 0
Pico IyerI knew God wanted to do much more...and he would, if we provided good soil in which he could work. Votes: 0
Jim CymbalaIt 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
Chester W. NimitzWe can all produce good fruits with fertile soil. Votes: 4 Lailah Gifty Akita
You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people. Votes: 5 Joel Salatin
The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life. Votes: 1 John Lawson
But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship. Votes: 7 Wangari Maathai