Soil Quotes - Page 7

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

Soil is a living ecosystem and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.

But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

We don't even know what species are out there, for the most part, particularly when you get down to the microbes and very small invertebrates. They make up the mass of the organisms around us, including the soil we depend on, the soil of cornfields as well as hardwood forests. We haven't taken ecology to the point where we can even make a crude prediction of what's going to happen when we've reduced the living world down to a certain level.

Keep the soil healthy and the bad seed won't grow.

Civilization has its roots in the soil.

That dark laboratory we call the soil.

I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.

We are dependent on each other. Therefore, replenishing the soil, replenishing society and being part of one continuum - that's the new story.

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole.

The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.

At either end of any food chain you find a biological system-a patch of soil, a human body-and the health of one is connected-literally-to the health of the other.

Actually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there-a hat. They talk to them, you know. "What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality.

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.

I believe American manhood is too valuable to be sacrificed on foreign soil for foreign issues and causes.

Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.

Nations endure only as long as their topsoil.

Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.

Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and graceful boughs and frisky kittens and sleepy lagoons.