Soil Quotes - Page 28

• Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.

  Ron Fournier

  Grief, Anger, Acceptance

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• It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general. The farmer philosophizes in terms of crops, soils, markets, and implements, the mechanic generalizes his experiences of wood and iron, the seaman reaches similar conclusions by his own special road; and if the scholar keeps pace with these it must be by an equally virile productivity.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Men, Iron, Views

  Charles Horton Cooley (1909). “Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order”, Glencoe, Ill., Free P

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• I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality

  Clifford Sifton

  Children, Thinking, Sheep

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• The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Names, Degrees, Different

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.27, Beard Books

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• Nature is very clear on this. In fact, there's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks everyday. Now this is a law that's evolved over billions of years and the law is this: nothing in nature takes more than it needs. A redwood tree doesn't take all of the soil's nutrients, just what it needs to grow. A lion doesn't kill every gazelle, just one. We have a term for something in the body when it takes more than its share. We call it cancer.

  Tom Shadyac

  Cancer, Years, Law

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• When the soil's fertility is being conserved instead of raped, when village life is a social unity, when pride of craftsmanship returns, when everyone works for the sake of adding beauty and importance to life, when every river is clean and bright, and the proud words 'I serve' are in everyone's heart and purpose. Then my country will be good enough for me.

  Henry Williamson

  Country, Heart, Pride

  Henry Williamson (1966). “A solitary war”

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• Wherever you have a plot of land, however small, plant a garden. Staying close to the soil is good for the soul.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Garden, Land, Soul

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• If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it. If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe.

  Paul Bocuse

  Mistake, Doctors, Ivy

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• We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today - and will make possible tomorrow.

  Alvin Toffler

  Technology, People, Village

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• A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.

  Gustav Stresemann

  People, Offers, Extremist

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• Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

  Jalal Talabani

  Iraq, Different, Force

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• Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.

  Vandana Shiva

  Oil, Humanity

  Vandana Shiva (2016). “Soil, Not Oil: Climate Change, Peak Oil and Food Insecurity”, p.15, Zed Books Ltd.

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• God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy.

  Alan Redpath

  Joy, Tears, Unbroken

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• The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Animal, Men, Practice

  "All Labor Has Dignity".

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• With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there is no future.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Land

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• There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help. They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to know how to do it from hands-on experience.

  Bill Mollison

  Hands, Water, People

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• There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to the numbness. When they encounter one another, when they press their foreheads against the bark of a centuries-old tree...their eyes well with tears that fall easily to the ground. The soil needs this water. Grief is but a gate, and our tears a kind of key opening a place of wonder thats been locked away. Suddenly we notice a sustaining resonance between the drumming heart within our chest and the pulse rising from the ground

  David Abram

  Fall, Grief, Eye

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• We are developing all sorts of technologies based on what we have learnt from birds, animals and soils. Pollination is worth £billions. But it also highlights how nature is so interconnected.

  Tony Juniper

  Animal, Technology, Bird

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• How dare you treat your soil like dirt!

  Joel Salatin

  Dirt, Treats, Dare

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• A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.

  Wendell Berry

  Agriculture, People, Doe

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• I pledge allegiance to the soil
  of Turtle Island,
  and to the beings who thereon dwell
  one ecosystem
  in diversity
  under the sun
  With joyful interpenetratio n for all.

  Gary Snyder

  Islands, Turtles, Ecosystems

  Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison (2010). “The Etiquette of Freedom: Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and the Practice of the Wild”, p.76, Counterpoint Press

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• Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life

  Dalai Lama

  Everyday, Lotuses, Realization

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• I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.

  Mike Lee

  War, Thinking, Declaring

  "Sen. Mike Lee on Libya: 'If This Drags On There Will Be Calls for Withholding Funding'". Interview with David Weigel, www.slate.com. March 23, 2011.

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• Think about a seed. Once it lands, it's stuck. It can't move to find better soil, moisture or sunlight. It's able to create every part of itself to grow and reproduce with the help of air, water and sun.

  David Suzuki

  Moving, Thinking, Land

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• There is a Power around you that knows and that understands all things. This Power works like the soil; it receives the seed of your thought and at once begins to operate upon it. It will receive whatever you give to it and will create for you and throw back at you whatever you think into it.

  Ernest Holmes

  Thinking, Giving, All Things

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “Creative Mind”, p.57, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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