Soil Quotes

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

Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.

Human beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in.

There is a Power around you that knows and that understands all things. This Power works like the soil; it receives the seed of your thought and at once begins to operate upon it. It will receive whatever you give to it and will create for you and throw back at you whatever you think into it.

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

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

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

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

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.

Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.

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

Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.

No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love] There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene Only then I am human Only then I am clean

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

[At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.

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.

Hell, I don't break the soil periodically to 'reaffirm my status'. I do it because archeology is still the most fun you can have with your pants on.

Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation.

All economic activity is dependent upon that environment and its underlying resource base of forests, water, air, soil, and minerals. When the environment is finally forced to file for bankruptcy because its resource base has been polluted, degraded, dissipated, and irretrievably compromised, the economy goes into bankruptcy with it.

If the soil were as good as the harbours, it would be a blessing.

Nature demands a gift for everything that it gives, so what we have to keep doing, is returning [leaves & compost materials] back to the soil, then we're continuously giving the gifts to nature, because we have a return cycle.

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

We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

Trials are the soil in which faith flourishes.

The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil.

To feed our people we must first feed our soil

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

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

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

The soil says, don't bring me your need, bring me your seed.

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

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

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

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

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God's Word.

evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to cultivate, and produces on the contrary strict necessity in the decisions of the will, the opposite being impossible. Such a will can henceforth be relied on with confidence and certainty.

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.

Whether they did or didn't, America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don't remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time.

Essentially, all life depends upon the soil

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

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground.

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

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.

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.

You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.

Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white flower of immortal beauty