Soil Quotations | Page 5

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.

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

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.

There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall!

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

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.

Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.

The soil is the gift of God to the living.

The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful.

The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.

All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.