Soil quotes
242 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action."
"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."
"The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil."
"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."
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"The soil says, don't bring me your need, bring me your seed."
"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."
"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."
"We cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil."
"I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil."
"History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it."
"Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship."
"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."
"If your faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil."
"Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree."
"Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds."
"Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil."
"The soil is the gift of God to the living."
"If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy."
"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."
"There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources."
"Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms."
"The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds."
"Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also killing the 'good' insects whose function may be the essential one of breaking down organic matter and maintaining healthy soil?"
