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Soil Quotes

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

Margaret Atwood

Time Meaning Find Soil Own Ancient

There is also a marked global trend towards sustainable agriculture, building on traditional methods which use fewer chemical inputs, carefully manage soil and water resources, and work hand-in-hand with nature.

Work Nature Water Building Soil

It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.

Vagit Alekperov

Impossible Country Soil Company

Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.

Plants Trees Die Born Soil Land

Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.

Frances Beinecke

Change Plants Stand Healthy Soil

Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.

Training American Soil Forces Saudi

The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.

Soil Preservation Forests Practical

I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.

John Sergeant Wise

Time People Country Soil First Time

People need to realize how powerful the transformation of soil can be.

People Transformation Powerful Soil

We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.

Joyce Carol Oates

Childhood Plants Soil Without Take

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.

Water Money Alive Soil Will Air

Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.

Community Plants Green Process Soil

The soil is not a mass of dead debris, merely resulting from the physical and chemical weathering of rocks; it is a more or less homogeneous system which has resulted from the decomposition of plant and animal remains. It is teeming with life.

Life Animal Plant Rocks Soil Dead

France, land of human rights and freedoms, was attacked on its own soil by a totalitarian ideology: Islamic fundamentalism. It is only by refusing to be in denial, by looking the enemy in the eye, that one can avoid conflating issues.

Looking Eye Enemy Soil Land Human

There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet.

Howard Warren Buffett

People Living Soil More Planet Than

Under natural conditions, the soil does not lose its fixed nitrogen.

Lose Soil Natural Conditions Does

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.

Charlotte Bronte

Education Heart Grow Soil Never

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

William Dampier

Best Said Island Soil Being Dry

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

Soil Different Forces Foreign Which

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Soil Nation Destroys Itself

Cinema should always be in touch with the soil of the country. My films celebrate the heartland of India.

Celebrate Cinema Country India 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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness Prison New Soil Virtue

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

Abraham Lincoln

Face Soil Same Equal Level Globe

In time, we will have to recognise that it is not 'nature' that we need to protect, but ourselves, and we can only do this by abandoning the old, grandiose, profit-seeking schemes so beloved of our masters and learning to till the soil, live to scale, and live within our means.

Nature Learning Live Time Soil Will

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