Best 185 quotes in «soil quotes» category

The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful.

The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible.

The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.

The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.

The human spirit is nurtured by praise, as much as a seedling is nurtured by the soil, the water and the sun.

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 ignorant are like useless, brackish soil; They exist and that is all.

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins of all our modern industry and commerce. In fact,our civilization is wholly built upon our scientific discoveries.

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.

There isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration

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

The professional will not tolerate disorder... He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.

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

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

The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.

Walk ten meters, you will find the lust; walk thousand miles, you may find the love! Soil is everywhere; but gold is somewhere!

The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool.

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

Too often, the pastoralist blames the weeds and seeks a chemical rather than a management solution; too seldom do we find an approach combining the sensible utilisation of grasshoppers and grubs as a valuable dried-protein supplement for fish or food pellets, and a combination of soil conditioning, slashing, and de-stocking or re-seeding to restore species balance.

Trials are the soil in which faith flourishes.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.

Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil.

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

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

Wanna play a joke on your chiropractor? The next time he starts working on you, go limp and soil yourself.

We cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil.

We draw our strength from the great oaks of the forest. As they take their nourishment from the soil, and from the rains that feed the soil, so we find our courage in the pattern of living things around us. They stand through storm and tempest. They grow and renew themselves. Like a grove of young oaks, we remain strong.

We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.

We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image.

When I asked the president [Barack Obama], can you kill an American on American soil, it should have been an easy answer. It's an easy question. It should have been a resounding and unequivocal no. The president's response, he hasn't killed anyone yet.

We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley. We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous.

What is working stain, does not soil.

When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?

Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.

Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed.

Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison-- Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion.

You say, 'The country is messed up.' That's like cursing the soil and the seed and the sunshine and the rain, which is all you've got. Don't curse all you've got. When you get your own planet, you can rearrange this whole deal. This one you've got to take like it comes.

You must know how to translate the indications of the word into daily witness, allowing yourselves to be formed by the word which, like seed sown in good soil, brings abundant fruit. Thus you will remain docile to the Spirit and grow in union with God, you will cultivate fraternal communion among yourselves and be ready to serve your brethren generously, especially those most in need.

You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil, Lay down the wreck of power to rest...