We're using satellites to help map and model cultural features that could never be seen on the ground because they're obscured by modernization, forests, or soil.
Sarah Parcak
HelpSoilMapNeverGroundSeen
When I looked into the lives of the Chinese saints, I discovered that many of them had died during the Boxer Rebellion, a war that occurred on Chinese soil in the year 1900.
Gene Luen Yang
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When Pope Francis touched down on French soil for the first time in his papacy with a visit to the European Parliament in Strasbourg last November, Ms. Royal was the senior French official there to greet him.
Elaine Sciolino
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Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
Radhanath Swami
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While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.
Ma Jun
WaterBackSoilCheapAirChina
Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.
Dan Barber
VegetablesSoilBankMakeAccount
If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.
John Harrison
GardeningPlantsYouBuildSoilUp
Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
Sitting Bull
LoveMindEnoughSoilPossessions
I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture.
Mili Avital
CultureBloodWantSoilUpIsrael
The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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Americans are worried about climate change because they can already witness its effects. They see its signature in the drought in California, where record heat has dried the state's fertile soil.
Brian Schatz
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In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.
Peter Garrett
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
Nikolai Gogol
SoilLordMayGrant
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
James Madison
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Protect the consumer by owning the product all the way from the soil to the table.
Henry J. Heinz
TableProductSoilWayProtect
Keep the soil healthy and the bad seed won't grow.
David Agus
SeedGrowBadHealthySoilKeep
Farmers can't plant much more land because almost every accessible acre of arable soil is already in use. Nor can the use of fertilizer be increased: it is already being overused everywhere except some parts of Africa, and the runoff is polluting rivers, lakes, and oceans.
Charles C. Mann
PlantSoilAfricaLandMoreFarmers
It's very difficult to tell someone how to protect themselves from a terrorist attack, whether it occurs in the U.S. or on foreign soil, particularly when you have terrorists with no concern for human life.
Saxby Chambliss
LifeSomeoneYouSoilProtectHuman
The Boxer Rebellion is a war that was fought on Chinese soil in the year 1900. The Europeans, the Japanese and their Chinese Christian allies were on one side. On the other were poor, starving, illiterate Chinese teenagers whom the Europeans referred to as the Boxers.
WarChristianYearSoilPoorSide
But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
Wangari Maathai
CorruptionYouBadSoilBecomeSaw
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
Quintilian
WorkTalentAgricultureStudentSoil
I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.
Maggie Q
WaterGrowYouKnowSoilWay
In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
Bayard Taylor
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