Soil Quotes - Page 10

But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru? Why are we supposed to be psychiatrists? Isn't it enough to write and tell the truth? It's not like telling the truth is common. Writers are the earthworms of society. We aerate the soil. That's enough.

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!

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

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

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...

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

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

America is not an ethnostate. We are not rooted in blood and soil.

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

I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.

If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

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.

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].

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.

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

The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own time and the problems of other contemporary artists. Paths cross and the soil of time is starting to be turned.

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

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

Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.