163 Soil Quotes for You to Enjoy

I have been given a list of 35 white farmers in Mashonaland West alone. We say no to whites owning our land, and they should go... They can own companies and apartments... but not the soil. It is ours, and that message should ring loud and clear in Britain and the United States. Robert Mugabe

Alone Soil Own White Our Say States Ours Ring Given Clear Message Go Been West Loud List Owning Apartments Land Should Whites Farmers Companies United United States Britain

All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people. Alvar N. C. de Vaca

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil. Anne Lamott

Death You Gardening Ugly Soil Black Dig Earth See Seeds Seems Clay Throw Never Nails Over Over It Know Cover Rocks Rocky Handful Hands Doomed Polluted Holes Again Little Roots Your Full Poppy

May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the beaches of Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg for us. Cory Booker

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

Humanity Soil Rich Tree Arts Manure Waste Grows

New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions. Henry Cabot Lodge

Love Soil Harsh Favored More New New England Climate Passing Stormy Regions Coast England Barren Even Rough

You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people. Joel Salatin

Food You People Soil Healthy Civilization Without Healthy People Junk Junk Food

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard. Pope John Paul II

Today Time History World Christ Soil First Become Preaching Sets Distant Once Bishop Gifted Through Foot Fair Gospel First Time Rome Land Pagan English Vineyard Portion Beloved

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

Celebrate Cinema Soil Country Films India Touch Always Should

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

Soil Face Every Other Equal Globe Spot Cultivation Fertility Same Which Illinois Actual Sufficiently Amount Level Extent

But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices. Albert II of Belgium

The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by soil bacteria into nitrate, a toxic and highly soluble chemical that can leach into groundwater or get washed into lakes, creating oxygenless dead zones. Alex Shoumatoff

Broken Soil Down Way Nitrogen Bacteria Some Per Cotton Pounds Highly Toxic Dead Chemical Fertilizer Get Lakes Acre Creating Requiring Usual Washed Growing Zone

Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will pay dividends for as long as the human race survives - and may even extend our stay on Earth. Alex Steffen

Animal Water Plant Soil Will Weather Long Diversity Pay Our Resources Air Earth Mineral Stay Clean Clean Air Dividends Survives May Human Predictable Race Human Race Even Species Extend

The problem of a rising population destroying more than four tons of soil for every human already alive needs to find its way into corporate board rooms if we are to enjoy future financial, economic and political stability. Allan Savory

Future Needs Problem Financial Political Soil Enjoy Every Corporate Way Alive Destroying Find Rising More Economic Than Stability Human Board Rooms Population Four Tons

Being about to land on the soil of North Carolina, the general commanding desires his soldiers to remember that they are here to support the Constitution and the laws, to put down rebellion, and to protect the persons and property of the loyal and peaceable citizens of the State. Ambrose Burnside

Property Constitution Rebellion Remember Soil Down State Soldiers Carolina Citizens About General Laws Put Support Protect His Commanding North North Carolina Being Land Persons Loyal Peaceable Here Desires

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon. Andre Gide

Love Prayer Old Soil Made Beauty Whatever Young Too Caress Seems Join Joined Soon Make Were Hands Pity Them

I'm sure we've all had that annoying experience when we desperately need a flashlight, we find one, and the batteries are out. Imagine how much money we would save and the amount of toxins leached into the soil, etc., reduced if we didn't use any batteries in flashlights! Ann Makosinski

Experience Money Soil Desperately Batteries Out Would Find Had Annoying Sure How Reduced How Much How Much Money Any Etc Much Use Amount Need Imagine Save

In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen. Annie Jacobsen

Time World Matter Soil Seen Before Defense Airplane Would Atomic Atomic Bomb Never Had Disaster Likes Arms Arms Race American Department Just Crash Decided Which Race Full Transporting Radioactive Swing Bomb

India is one of the richest civilizations in the world, and we Indians are known for our love of our soil! But somewhere on our way to modernisation, we have been losing the very essence and spirit that we should be proud of - that is, our culture that teaches us to love and respect nature and nurture it. Asin

Love Nature Respect Culture World Losing Soil Nurture Somewhere Our Way Our Love India Indians Spirit Civilizations Known Proud Been Very Essence To Love Us Should Richest Teaches

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

The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool. Charles Sturt

Soil Suited Our Fine More Colonies New Particularly Climate South Australian Wales New South Wales Which Wool Production Staple

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