Quotes of: Soil Keyword

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

Ezra Pound

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

David Suzuki

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

Elizabeth George

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

Gustav Stresemann

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Jonathan Swift

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.

David Suzuki

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

Karl Marx

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

Nancy Gibbs

we are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

Love

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

Quintilian

Sooner or later your fingers close on that one moist-cold spud that the spade has accidentally sliced clean through, shining wetly white and giving off the most unearthly of earthly aromas. It's the smell of fresh soil in the spring, but fresh soil s...

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of life, so he is careful to take their interests into account in whatever he does. He is in fact a wilderness advocate of a ...

Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

Dare to imagine. Dare to be. Books are the seeds. Dreams are the soil. The fruit of the harvest, a world reborn.

Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher

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

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.

Toru Takemitsu

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

Art as Experience

But a parcel of walled soil does not make the heart of a ruler or define the nobility of a people!

Stormed Fortress

Self-love the perfect soil from which to grow love.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too.

Nana

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

Thirukkural

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

The Palace the Palace