Quotes About Soil

The universe will never be extinguished because just when the darkness seems to have smothered all, to be truly transcendent, the new seeds of light are reborn in the very depths. That is the Way. When the seed falls, it falls into the earth, into the soil. And beneath, out of sight, it comes to life. "An

Here, finally, was a woman on a quest for her own identity and, unlike so many other questing figures in black literature, her journey would take her, not away from, but deeper and deeper into blackness, the descent into the Everglades with its rich black soil, wild cane, and communal life representing immersion into black traditions.

Papa always says, you can fix soil, and you can build houses, but there's no point if the land don't have water.

The essential passions of the heart have found a better soil in which it may attain it's maturity; remain under less restraint and extended into it's natural state

Pakistanis were being conditioned to believe that their nationhood was under constant threat and that the threat came from India. Within weeks of independence, editorials in the Muslim League newspaper, Dawn, "called for 'guns rather than butter, 'urging a bigger and better-equipped army to defend 'the sacred soil? of Pakistan.

May showers enrich thy happy soil, Fair land, where fanes & towers arise: On thee let sainted pilgrims pour The richest blessings of the skies. The wave that round thy bosom plays, Conscious of its endeared retreat, When the rude tempest rocks thy domes, In sigh resigns its happy seat. Yet urged another glance to steal Of thy loved form so good so fair, Flies to avoid the painful view Of rival lovers basking hence.

People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.

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

A new respect for Nature had been learned, a new kinship with sun and water and soil....They had learned that while Nature is often beautiful and kind, her laws must be respected, for they are ruthless and inexorable as well. Man must accept these laws and adjust his way of living to them. Then only can he prosper.

Interestingly, one notable way of restoring soil is the planting of cannabis or hemp, which absorbs more CO2 than any other tree, shrub, or plant known to man. But growing cannabis remains illegal in the United States. Rattan

He was staring off across the long broad fields, raising his eyes above the red clay soil to the horizon, looking across the fiery-red plains of Hell with its endless gauntlet of dead-brown imps---the cotton, the cotton, cotton, cotton---closing his eyes to them and seeing only the horizon and its towering ranks of derricks. Steel giants, snorting and chuckling amongst themselves; sneering wonderingly at the cotton and the bent-backed pigmies admist it. Huffing and puffing and belching up gold.

Science keeps down the weed of superstition not by logic, but by rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation

Not every soil can bear all things.

There are also kinds of water that cause death, as they run through harmful juices in the soil and become poisonous.

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.

After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.

Contrairement à l'agrochimie, l'agroécologie repose sur un constat qui détermine toute la problématique : le sol est un organisme vivant à part entière et non un substrat neutre destiné à recevoir des engrais de synthèse.

the strongest seeds most need the accompaniment of good air and soil, so the best of human characters turn out the worst when they fall upon an unsuitable soil;

In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

The fallow soil of loneliness is fertile ground for self-deception.

Gardeners know that you must nourish the soil if you want healthy plants. You must water the plants adequately, especially when seeds are germinating and sprouting, and they should be planted in a nutrient-rich soil. Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.

In our city spring came from the sky, not from the soil, which was ruled by stone that recognizes no seasonal change. The change of the season could be glimpsed in the thinning of clouds, the appearance of the birds and the occasional rainbow.)