Soil Quotes - Page 9

Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.

All soils are not fertile.

The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.

The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.

Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued.

Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear transplanting.

It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

Nosotros somos paisanos. We are fellow countrymen. We come from the same soil.

By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to the life of which that one constituent is indispensable.

Saints can spring from any soil.

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

You can't chemical your way out of soil infertility

I knew God wanted to do much more...and he would, if we provided good soil in which he could work.

The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.

The cleanest souls are the easiest to soil.

The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up.

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

Still young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soil'd, though fresh and new.

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.

Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.

Luscious feet that listened to the soil and stole its secrets.