Soil Quotes - Page 4

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.

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

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

Maps are a way of organizing wonder.

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

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

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

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

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina.

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

The Indians had to be either killed, or herded into reservations, which were essentially concentration camps, and forgotten. Their history had to be absolutely obliterated so that we could believe that we were living on virgin soil.

Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also killing the 'good' insects whose function may be the essential one of breaking down organic matter and maintaining healthy soil?

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

The soil of Palestine still enjoys her sabbaths, and only waits for the return of her banished children, and the application of industry, commensurate with her agricultural capabilities, to burst once more into universal luxuriance, and be all that she ever was in the days of Solomon.

How dare you treat your soil like dirt!

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

He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.

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

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

Anybody from my soil is my responsibility.

Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.

It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of each sort of hay will feed and fatten; what quantity of grain and other commodities the same acre will bear in one, three or seven years; unto what use each soil is proper; all which particulars I call intrinsic value, for there is also another value merely accidental or extrinsic.

How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it?

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses