Soil Quotes

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

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

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

There is a Power around you that knows and that understands all things. This Power works like the soil; it receives the seed of your thought and at once begins to operate upon it. It will receive whatever you give to it and will create for you and throw back at you whatever you think into it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.

Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.

No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love] There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene Only then I am human Only then I am clean

[At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.

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

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.

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.

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.

All economic activity is dependent upon that environment and its underlying resource base of forests, water, air, soil, and minerals. When the environment is finally forced to file for bankruptcy because its resource base has been polluted, degraded, dissipated, and irretrievably compromised, the economy goes into bankruptcy with it.

If the soil were as good as the harbours, it would be a blessing.

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

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

Nature demands a gift for everything that it gives, so what we have to keep doing, is returning [leaves & compost materials] back to the soil, then we're continuously giving the gifts to nature, because we have a return cycle.

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

Trials are the soil in which faith flourishes.