Quotes About Soil

Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.

The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it.

I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.

It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.

I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.

Let all the green leaves be mineas long as the trees define shades created by their limbsfor the soil made with victimsof atrocity's vileness to redeem the fragileness

It is a heavy downpour of rain which drenches the soil to fullness; likewise only a profuse shower of love can overcome hatred.

These trees are happy. Yes, I said it. Why wouldn't they be, in this rich, soft, rain-washed soil.

Confession is the act of inviting God to walk the acreage of our hearts. "There is a rock of greed over here, Father. I can't budge it. And that tree of guilt near the fence? Its roots are long and deep. And may I show you some dry soil, too crusty for seed?" God's seed grows better if the soil of the heart is cleared.

We pitch our tents of brick on the tremulous soil of a dark, scary world.

It is a poor soul who confuses dirt with filth or soil with soiled.

The vinedresser does a curious thing with the rotten fruit. He turns it back into the soil and there, underground, by some spectacular organic miracle of nature, it fertilizes a future harvest.

place in him where memory remained, like a patch of soil the tractor has missed, where a few dry stalks of last summer's crops still stand in their withered rows, the soil not turned over.

Black, in Egyptian cosmology, was the color of fertility and life everlasting—the color of good, rich soil without which there is no survival.

That's what memory is like: layers, one overlapping another, and compacting down the way old leaves slowly crumble and turn to a rich peaty soil, nourishing the new things that will grow. It's why it's important, remembering things. It's why it matters, when the memories aren't there, and no one fills in the gaps for you.

Farmer George. That was what people called him behind his back. Little did they know he took it as a compliment. He had meant what he'd said to his mother that morning. The earth was beautiful. Soil was a miracle, and from it sprang all life and hope.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

There is nothing like the land you belong to claiming you back. But everywhere the earth is the same. -Old David

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

If our faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.

We are to till the soil and work the land—not worship it.

The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon and cultivate as far as necessary for their subsistence; and so long as they occupy and cultivate it, they have a right to the soil."

And for goodness' sake put some of the county back where it belongs, the soil erosion's bad enough as it is. Dill stared at my father's retreating figure. He's trying tryin' to be funny, I said.