Soil Quotes - Page 26

• Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.

  George Ellwanger

  Wine, Men, Oil

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• No nation has been able to establish itself, as a nation in Palestine up to this
  day, no national union and no national spirit have prevailed there. The motley,
  impoverished tribes which have occupied it have held it as mere tenants at will,
  temporary landowners, evidently waiting for those entitled to the permanent
  possession of the soil.

  John William Dawson

  Waiting, Unions, Able

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• I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil. He is a creature who digs himself into the earth and leaves the sight of what is on it to us gaping good-for-nothings. He lives buried in the ground. He builds his monument in a heap of compost. If he came into the Garden of Eden, he would sniff excitedly and say: "Good Lord, what humus!"

  Karel Capek

  Real, Flower, Men

  Karel Capek (2002). “The Gardener's Year”

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• Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.

  William Wordsworth

  Art, Pride, Hands

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• To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.

  Laozi

  Country, Kings, Taoism

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• Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil.

  Bill Jenkins

  Hype, Abuse, May

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• I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been, because millions of years have passed over evolution, people have scattered across the face of this earth, been isolated from each other, developed independently, had different intermixtures between races, peoples, climates, soils... I didn't start off with that knowledge. But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Believe, Reading, Men

  "Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas". Book by Han Fook Kwang, Warren Fernandez, Sumiko Tan, 1997.

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• I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.

  Cyril Cusack

  Theatre, Native

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• Depression is a death within, a knowledge - terrifying - that you cannot resurrect yourself. Depression is loss of the vision that lets leaves breathe and fall, that lets the air smell of seed and soil. And there must be rage, yes I think there is rage toward such a severing, such a ragged-deep rupture with the world.

  Lauren Slater

  Fall, Loss, Thinking

  Lauren Slater (2012). “Welcome to My Country”, p.129, Anchor

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• Now I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.

  Emily Saliers

  Thoughtful, Hands, Rose

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• I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.

  Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

  Land, Tree, Doe

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• The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Majority, Bread

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

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• Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the dance, on a tiny stage, of the living, speaking hand - and its roots reach into living soil, though its branches may be hung each year with new machines. So long as the root lives, typography remains a source of true delight, true knowledge, true surprise.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Independent, Hands, Years

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• A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.

  Johan Huizinga

  Growing Up, Humanity, Culture

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• Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Food, Jewels, Cooking

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• The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it says it. To read like this is to set aside the ‘literariness’ of the work – the fact that it is a poem or play or novel, rather than an account of the incidence of soil erosion in Nebraska.

  Terry Eagleton

  Mistake, Erosion, Play

  Terry Eagleton (2013). “How to Read Literature”, p.2, Yale University Press

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• This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Achievement, Doe, Genius

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (2013). “Henryk Sienkiewicz: Three Stories”, p.7, Wildside Press LLC

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• The fruit of our labors is sweet when the work is consecrated to God. But we have to be able to weather the conditions - the winds, the rain or the drought, the brilliant sun and sometimes the bitter cold. Sometimes our work needs to be directed at improving our ground rather than excusing our own harvests because the place we have been given is a little hard; there are too many rocks, too many hills, too little top soil. If we focus on where we are instead of what we can do with our plot, we will find our efforts significantly diminished.

  Elaine L. Jack

  Sweet, Work, Rain

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• He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging... This confers the tone and bearing of genuine reminiscences. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil.

  Walter Benjamin

  Real, Past, Men

  "Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writings".

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• A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation of laws and mores... Capitalism is a government program.

  George Will

  Spring, Government, Law

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• Those who want success should think like a planter. They should understand that having the right seed is an essential key to success, but they must also understand that the soil that they entrust to the seed is just as vital Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?.

  Eric Thomas

  Thinking, Keys, Yield

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• Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Land, Literature, Knows

  J. Frank Dobie (2010). “Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest”, p.7, University of Texas Press

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• The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate, a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not.

  Elizabeth Fry

  Flower, Looks, Gone

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• Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring - that delicious commingling of the perfume of arbutus, the odor of pines, and the snow - soaked soil just warming into life.

  Neltje Blanchan

  Life, Nature, Spring

  Neltje Blanchan (1901). “Wild Flowers: An Aid to Knowledge of Nature's Garden ..”

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• Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge. . . and the longest life is too short.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Life, Weed, Flower

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2011). “The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.229, Cambridge University Press

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