Best 185 quotes in «soil quotes» category

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

Jealousy takes root in the soil of insecurity.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.

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.

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

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

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.

Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.

Sturdy gospel roots that go deep into rich spiritual soil strengthen and steady us in times of trial and difficulty.

The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.

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.

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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