Best 185 quotes in «soil quotes» category

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.

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.

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

How dare you treat your soil like dirt!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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].

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

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

I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . . I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom

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

I very much consider the Internet a garden, and I'm a gardener, and I plant things in it and I work within the framework of the soil, the seasons, the climate, and the temperature, to produce plants.

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

Jealousy takes root in the soil of insecurity.

Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of agricultural implements, should prophesy an end to the tilling of the soil.

Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

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

Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

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.

Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.

Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.

Mycologists are few and far between. We are under-funded, poorly represented in the context of other sciences - ironic as the very foundation of our ecosystems are directly dependent upon fungi, which ultimately create the foundation of soils.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.

One of the major problems is what we do to the soil, the air, the water and everything, we take in our food.

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

Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?

No nation has been able to establish itself, as a nation in Palestine up to this day, no national union and no national spirit have prevailed there. The motley, impoverished tribes which have occupied it have held it as mere tenants at will, temporary landowners, evidently waiting for those entitled to the permanent possession of the soil.

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.

Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,-the stronger ejecting the weaker,-the more vigorous overgrowing and killing the more delicate. Every modification of climate, every disturbance of the soil, every interference with the existing vegetation of an area, favours some species at the expense of others.

Progress in manufacturing is measured by the production of high quality goods. The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning-a rigorous method for demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme uncertainty.

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.

Soil with a lot of manure in it produces abundant crops; water that is too clear has no fish. Therefore, enlightened people should maintain the capacity to accept impurities and should not be solitary perfectionists.