163 Soil Quotes for You to Enjoy

I'm a scientist - a geobiologist who's been studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil for over twenty years. One day, I realized that I wanted, needed, to tell people - and not just other scientists - about my life in science. Hope Jahren

Life Day Science People Soil My Life Other Trees One Day Tell Seeds About Studying Over Scientist Scientists Been Years Just Wanted Realized Twenty Flowers Needed

Africa is the most weathered continent in the world; 75 percent of its soil has been degraded. You don't just bring that back. I always like to say it's like putting an oxygen mask on a cadaver; it just isn't going to work. Howard Graham Buffett

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

People Soil Organic Living More Highly Than Planet Organisms Living Organisms

Other lands may have their charms, and the sunny skies of other climes may be regretted, but it is with pride and gladness that the wanderer sets foot again on British soil, thanking God for the religion and the liberty which have made this weather-beaten island in a northern sea to be the light and glory of the world. Isabella Bird

God Religion World Liberty Pride Light Soil Made Sets Other Sunny Charms Gladness Foot Glory Island Thanking Northern May Wanderer Which Again Skies Regretted Lands Sea British

The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it. Isabella Bird

Best Needs Fruit Water Matter Care Soil Salt Bends Circumstances Kind Neither Ripe Drops Toward Loose How Nor Any Lovingly Sandy Congenial Sea Manure Near Grows Palm

The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level of rich, stoneless, alluvial soil a desert. It is a dead flat of uninhabited earth; orange colocynth balls, a little wormwood, and some alkaline plants which camels eat, being its chief products. After the inundations, reedy grass grows in the hollows. Isabella Bird

Walls Plants Soil Rich Grass Earth Eat Some Vast Baghdad Dead Call Camels Balls Up Chief Orange Being After Flat Which Little Products Desert Grows Level

You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life. Jacob Bronowski

Life Environmental Time You Animal Plant Soil Will Once Once More More Animal Life Take Return Does End Up Die Sending May Again Cycle Carbon Career

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed. James Allen

Beautiful Humanity Dark Most Beautiful Soil Poverty Developed Most Grown Flowers

Law enforcement's biased view of the Irish lives on in the nickname we still use for the vehicles we use to transport groups of prisoners. It is, after all, the 'paddy wagon.' The Irish had tough times, but little compares to the experience on our soil of black Americans. James Comey

Tough Times Experience Law Soil Black Tough Our Black Americans Had Vehicles Biased Still Prisoners Wagon Irish Times American After Little Enforcement View Use Transport Groups Compares Lives Nickname

By the 1880s, baseball was entrenched in the Cape's sandy soil. Semipro teams, commonplace before World War I, were organized into the first Cape Cod League in 1923 - Orleans joined the four original teams five years later. By 1940, the league had foundered on financial shoals and disbanded. Jane Leavy

War World Financial Soil First Before Later Entrenched Joined Had League Were Years Five Commonplace Cape Sandy Organized Original Teams Baseball Orleans Four World War World War I

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

In the car on my way to premieres and awards shows, I'll sit with tissue paper under my armpits so I don't soil the delicate dress fabric. The whole time, I'm telling myself, 'Please don't sweat, please don't sweat.' I throw the tissues out right before I step out of the car, and nobody ever knows! I just put on a smile and fake it. Jessica Biel

Smile Time Myself Car Soil Before Sit Please Way Paper Out Telling Fabric Dress Delicate Throw Step Put Nobody Knows Fake Just Tissue Sweat Whole Shows Awards Ever Right

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil. Jhumpa Lahiri

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey. Jim Fowler

Father Soil Geological Scientist Survey

The linear, single species idea of farming is an assault on ecological function. Something's going to break down in that system - anything from soil structure, in economics... but where to start is with true ecological function. Joel Salatin

Nothing quite beats playing on home soil in front of a home crowd. Johanna Konta

Home Soil Nothing Crowd Beats Front Quite Playing

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. John Burnside

Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it. John Holdren

Result Soil Temperature Something Course Conditions Start

The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life. John Lawson

Life Soil Live Pleasant Carolina Easy Inhabitants Richness

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

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

Plants Soil Our Characters Must Would Would-Be Shallow Take Almost Like Without Souls Cherished However Childhood Literally Themes Us Root Landscapes Nourish Origins Universal Set

Analysis of soil, grave goods and skeletons has been key to our understanding of archaeology and the migration of peoples, as well as their daily lives. But in mainstream history, we tend to stick to documents. Kate Williams

I started looking all over for vineyard sites. I studied the conditions that make the best pinots. In the New World, you have to find the great pieces of land. Cool climate counts, but distinctive soil matters more than anything. Kevin Harvey

Best Great You World Soil Looking Matters Distinctive Find More More Than Anything Studied Over New Counts Pieces Make Climate Conditions Than Sites New World Anything Land Cool Vineyard Started

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