Best 185 quotes in «soil quotes» category

And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.

As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.

As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil;So will a man's reason vary with the quality of his friends.

As soon as I put my foot on Indian soil, my painting underwent a change not only in subject and spirit but in technique.

Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply.

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.

A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.

By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.

But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

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

Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is due to the influences of many things and events of the past.

Essentially, all life depends upon the soil

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.

Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.

Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited upon our European soil and, as one of countless human beings, I can't claim any special place for myself except that, as an Austrian, a Jew, writer, humanist and pacifist, I have always been precisely in those places where the effects of the thrusts were most violent.

Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith.

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.

God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy.

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

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

For mine is the old belief... There is a soil in every leaf.

Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.

How dare you treat your soil like dirt!

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?

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

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.

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.

If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.

I did not get over the loss of my loved ones; rather, I absorbed the loss into my life, like soil receives decaying matter, until it became a part of who I am.

If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from Aristotle et al, for sure, but not if we simply uproot them from their epoch and stamp them into 21st-century soil.

I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.

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].

I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.

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

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

I see the day in our own lifetime that reverence for the natural systems, the oceans, the rainforests, the soil, the grasslands, and all other living things will be so strong that no narrow ideology based upon politics or economics will overcome it.

It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.

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

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success.

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