Soil Quotes - Page 19

• Our national conservation effort must include the complete spectrum of resources: air, water, and land; fuels, energy, and minerals; soils, forests, and forage; fish and wildlife. Together they make up the world of nature which surrounds us- of the American heritage.

  John F. Kennedy

  Air, Land, Water

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.177, Best Books on

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• As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.

  Louis Bromfield

  Vitality, Environment, Humans

  Louis Bromfield (1946). “A Few Brass Tacks”

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• There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural resources, including fresh water, clean air, tillable soil, forests, wilderness, habitat for wildlife, minerals and recreational assets.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Running, Air, America

  Gaylord Nelson, Paul A. Wozniak, Susan M. Campbell (2002). “Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise”, p.164, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right only when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community, and the community includes the soil, waters, fauna, and flora, as well as people.

  Aldo Leopold

  Integrity, Spring, Practice

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• The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing is that there be multiple food chains, so that when any one of them fails-when the oil runs out, when mad cow or other food-borne diseases become epidemic, when the pesticides no longer work, when drought strikes and plagues come and soils blow away-we'll still have a way to feed ourselves.

  Michael Pollan

  Running, Blow, Epidemics

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.134, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, People

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• Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Judging, Creative

  Albert Einstein (2007). “The World As I See It”, p.9, Book Tree

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• There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the growth of few soils: And in the main it will be found, that a power over a man's support is a power over his will.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Sacrifice, Men, Support

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1831). “The Federalist on the New Constitution”, p.364

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• A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

  Vaclav Havel

  Spring, Greatness, Important

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Eye, Hands

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• Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Heart, Self, Wind

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• If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Wine, Phones, Labels

  "And Now, Four Glasses of Wine with Padma Lakshmi". Interview with Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. September 14, 2012.

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• Whether they did or didn't, America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don't remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time.

  Eric Bolling

  America, Safe, Remember

  "Obama's Debt Threats: Reality or Scare Tactic?". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. July 13, 2011.

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• We’ll all say that. We’ll all go on and make the place safe. Roads, cities. New sky, new soil. Until it’s all some kind of Siberia or Northwest Territories, and Mars will be gone and we’ll be here, and we’ll wonder why we feel so empty. Why when we look at the land we can never see anything but our own faces.

  Kim Stanley

  Cities, Land, Sky

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• Really, what [sea] ice does is it acts like a garden. … Losing that ice is like losing the soil in a garden.

  Paul Nicklen

  Motivation, Inspiration, Garden

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• Nosotros somos paisanos. We are fellow countrymen. We come from the same soil.

  Kathi Appelt

  Countrymen, Fellows

  Kathi Appelt (2013). “The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Israel cannot continue to exist in an atmosphere of peace and tranquillity without threats and aggression. If this regime stays on one inch of Palestine’s soil, it will continue its threats.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Israel, Atmosphere, Regimes

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• Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.

  Aldo Leopold

  Animal, Self, Land

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.318, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than
  one rooted in pavements.

  Aldo Leopold

  Doubt, Pavement, Rooted

  Aldo Leopold, Susan Flader, J. Baird Callicott (1991). “The river of the mother of God and other essays”, Univ of Wisconsin Pr

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• Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Names, Mud, Buried

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• I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just keep soaring. I like that spirit.

  Barbara Jordan

  Texas, Feelings, Want

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• his planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don’t poison the water, soil, or air, don’t let the earth get overcrowded, and don’t touch the thermostat have been broken.

  Paul Hawken

  Future, Air, Broken

  "The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times". Book by Paul Loeb, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2014.

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• The beautiful in life...
  Some talk of it in poetry,
  Some grow it from the soil,
  Some build it in a steeple,
  Some show it through their toil.
  Some breathe it into music,
  Some mold it into art,
  Some shape it into bread loaves...
  Some hold it in their hearts.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Beautiful, Art, Meaning Of Life

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• Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Fighting, Cutting, Genius

  Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “The Religion of Man”, p.87, Ravenio Books

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• The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

  Shimon Peres

  Birthday, Loneliness, Land

  "Shimon Peres welcomes Arab uprisings" by Conal Urquhart, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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