Soil Quotes - page 2

These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes - nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect, the "good" and the "bad," to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil - all this though the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects. Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called "insecticides," but "biocides." (Rachel Carson)
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. View quote
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows. View quote
François Rabelais
Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth? View quote
David Lloyd George
You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree - the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men. View quote
Chinua Achebe
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of democracy, social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts. View quote
Ezra Pound
Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. (Joshua Reynolds)
Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather. View quote
Isaac Barrow
Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience and reverence, it is not without sincere sorrow that I have beheld many of the sons of these men driven from their fathers' mansions, or holding them as little better than tenants or stewards, while the swarms of Placemen, Pensioners, Contractors, and Nabobs...have usurped a large part of the soil. View quote
William Cobbett
Every soil does not produce every material. View quote
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil; They exist and that is all. View quote
Thiruvalluvar
As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil; So will a man's reason vary with the quality of his friends. View quote
Thiruvalluvar
In all future, only peace may come from German soil. View quote
Helmut Kohl
The man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents. View quote
Ann Coulter
Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,- Freedom to worship God. View quote
Felicia Hemans
Syria has allowed its soil to be transited by foreign fighters who have come from a variety of source countries in the Gulf area and in the - in North African countries. There are some signs that that may have been reduced somewhat in the last couple of months. We need to watch that a bit and see if that is the case. View quote
David Petraeus
As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. I try to hold both history and the wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times. (Gary Snyder)
The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake. View quote
William McKinley
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain-dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops. View quote
John Muir
Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil. View quote
Carl Sagan
I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it. View quote
Steven Erikson