Soil Quotes - Page 27

• By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to the life of which that one constituent is indispensable.

  Justus von Liebig

  Life, Earth, Absence

  Justus von Liebig (1855). “Principles of agricultural chemistry with special reference to the late researches made in England: By Justus von Liebig. (Ed. by William Gregory)”, p.31

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• The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek - topo for place and cosmos for world order. Topocosm means "the world order of a particular place." The topocosm is the entire complex of any given locality conceived as a living organism, not just the human community but the total community - the plants, animals and soils of the place. The topocosm is not only the actual and present living community but also that continuous entity of which the present community is but the current manifestation.

  Dolores LaChapelle

  Life, Mean, Animal

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• We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

  Alan Chadwick

  Life, Spiritual, Nature

  Alan Chadwick (2008). “Performance in the Garden: A Collection of Talks on Biodynamic French Intensive Horticulture”, Logosophia

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• Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, May, Consideration

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• MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Body

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.720, Library of America

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• Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.

  Tony Snow

  Love, Majesty, Unexpected

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• The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, the richer the harvest.

  Isidore of Seville

  Catholic, Understanding, Utterance

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• Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.

  Plutarch

  Teacher, Nature, Men

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• I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early morning ones, and there is dew on the grass, and the day is forever unproved, where I might have a fertile unknown for a soil about me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Nature, Feet

  Henry David Thoreau, Ronald A. Bosco (2005). “Nature's Panorama: Thoreau on the Seasons”, p.28, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree, which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit, and roots of its own. The more native art is, the more it belongs to the entire world, because taste is rooted in nature. When art is true, it is one with nature. This is the secret of primitive art and also of the art of the mastersMichelangelo, Czanne, Seurat, and Renoir. The secret of my best work is that it is Mexican.

  Diego Rivera

  Art, Roots, Mexican

  Diego Rivera, with Gladys March (2012). “My Art, My Life: An Autobiography”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Inspiring, White, Water

  Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.7, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings up from sand gravel soil through straw bamboo wood and less tangible elements Power song for the hands Healing song for the senses what can and cannot be perceived of the soul.

  Olga Broumas

  Song, Healing, Garden

  Olga Broumas (1999). “Rave: poems, 1975-1999”, Copper Canyon Pr

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• The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Yield, Soul, Upside Down

  Neal A. Maxwell (1991). “Men and Women of Christ”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Learning, Political, Mind

  'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 6 (10 December 1774)

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• Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor. Its uniformity protects us from the pine needles and beetles, but it also obscures them, as well as the soft moss, fragrant soil, and the teeming complexity of nature's bed. In moments, however, we catch glints and feel the breezes of something more direct, something outside that self system.

  Greg Kramer

  Knowing, Self, Meditation

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• Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand
  That soils my land,
  And giv'st me for my bushel sowne
  Twice ten for one.
  All this, and better, Thou dost send
  Me, to this end,
  That I should render, for my part,
  A thankful heart.

  Robert Herrick

  Thanksgiving, Heart, Hands

  Robert Herrick, Alfred William Pollard (1898). “The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: edited by Alfred Pollard, with a pref. by A.C. Swinburne”

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• Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met the grand army of the enemy, routed it at every point, and now it flies, inglorious in retreat before our victorious columns. We have taught them a lesson in their invasion of the sacred soil of Virginia.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Army, Virginia

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• The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.

  Jane Austen

  Beautiful, Country, Thinking

  Jane Austen (2010). “Mansfield Park: With an Introduction, Contemporary Opinions, and Contemporary Criticism”, p.212, Ignatius Press

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• Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Nature, School, Eye

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.258, Best Books on

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• I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted to the wayward winds. First the Earth gave the shimmer of greenery And grasses to deck the hills; then over the meadows The flowering fields are bright with the color of springtime, And for all the trees that shoot into the air.

  Lucretius

  Wind, Light, Air

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• For mine is the old belief... There is a soil in every leaf.

  Maturin Murray Ballou

  Tree, Belief, Leafs

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• Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.

  William Hazlitt

  Air, Genius, Exotic

  "The Complete Works of William Hazlitt".

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• The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.

  John Milton

  Country, Boredom, Dull

  John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes (1957). “Complete Poems and Major Prose”, p.104, Hackett Publishing

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• If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.

  Ernestine Rose

  Weed, Spring, Flower

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Selfishness, Landscape

  Henry David Thoreau, Michael McCurdy, Terry Tempest Williams (2010). “Walden”, p.88, Shambhala Publications

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