Soil Quotes - Page 29

• Wanna play a joke on your chiropractor? The next time he starts working on you, go limp and soil yourself.

  Mike Wilmot

  Play, Next, Jokes

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• While conversion of sugars to ethanol is the predominant reaction, it is only one of potentially thousands of biochemical reactions taking place during fermentation. As a result, wine contains trace amounts of a large number of organic acids, esters, sugars, alcohols, and other molecules. Wine is, in fact, one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus through a process guided by the culture, vision, and skill of an individual man or woman.

  Neel Burton

  Wine, Men, Vintage

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• A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.

  Wendell Berry

  Home, Garden, Practice

  Wendell Berry (2017). “The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry”, p.61, Penguin UK

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• Everyday, day & night, we hear the lies that September 11th is the worst tragedy, worst accident, and worst crime to ever been committed on American soil. We bear witness that the worst crime, the worst tragedy, that has ever taken place on American soil is not September 11th. It's not the twin towers. It's the holocaust that black folks been dealing with for 400 years.

  Malik Zulu Shabazz

  Lying, Taken, Night

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• As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live--we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige, and self-preservation, giving life to community, generosity, compassion, mercy, brotherhood, kindness, and love. The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Jesus, Kindness, Compassion

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.91, B&H Publishing Group

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• And whereas this House desires to obtain a full knowledge of all the facts which go to establish whether the particular spot of soil which the blood of our citizens was so shed was, or was not, our own soil.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Blood, House, Desire

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.421, Wildside Press LLC

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• The animate earth - this moody terrain that we experience differently in anger and in joy, in grief and in love - is both the soil in which all our sciences are rooted and the rich humus into which their results ultimately return, whether as nutrients or as poisons. Our spontaneous experience of the world, charged with subjective, emotional, and intuitive content, remains the vital and dark ground of all our objectivity

  David Abram

  Grief, Dark, Science

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• For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Thinking, Justice, Toil

  Oliver Goldsmith (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces”, p.27

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• The seed, swollen with moisture, burst asunder its covering of soil and out peers the blade of wheat, full of symbols. So faith, whose bosom is filled with goodly fruits, is a blade of praise.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Faith, Covering, Peers

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• Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.

  Andy Couturier

  Hands, Worry, Tree

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• Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors, and the stones of their works, are everywhere. Our liberties were won in wars and revolutions so terrible that we do not fear our governors: they fear us. Our children giggle and eat ice-cream in the palaces of past rulers. We snap our fingers at kings. We laugh at popes. When we have built up tyrants, we have brought them down. And we have nuclear ********* weapons.

  Ken MacLeod

  Country, Kings, Children

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• Just Enough Soil for legs Axe for hands Flower for eyes Bird for ears Mushrooms for nose Smile for mouth Songs for lungs Sweat for skin Wind for mind.

  Nanao Sakaki

  Song, Flower, Eye

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• The human spirit is nurtured by praise, as much as a seedling is nurtured by the soil, the water and the sun.

  Mario Fernandez

  Healing, Water, Sun

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• I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Nature, Yellow, Pieces

  Vincent van Gogh (1929). “Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889”

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• The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Self, Toxic, Dies

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.91, B&H Publishing Group

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• One of the major problems is what we do to the soil, the air, the water and everything, we take in our food.

  Charlotte Gerson

  Air, Water, Problem

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• I still try to keep my eyes open. I'm always on the lookout for antlion traps in sandy soil, monarch pupae near milkweed, skipper larvae in locust leaves. These things are utterly common, and I've not seen one

  Annie Dillard

  Eye, Trying, Common

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.19, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

  Chinua Achebe

  Oil, Fingers, Ifs

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.78, Anchor

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• History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Pages, Blank, Periods

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1953). “Reason in History: A General Introduction to the Philosophy of History”

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• We will have no mercy for white people regarding the land, they cannot own our soil.

  Robert Mugabe

  Land, White, People

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• We wish Pakistan both stability and security; we expect them to understand our legitimate concerns of preventing people from using its soil to inflict problem in India.

  Salman Khurshid

  People, Wish, India

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• A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Lying, Long, Culture

  John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.12

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• I knew God wanted to do much more...and he would, if we provided good soil in which he could work.

  Jim Cymbala

  Wanted, Ifs

  Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.17, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Tree, World, Demand

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.99, Penguin UK

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• ... finding that in [the Moon] there is a provision of light and heat; also in appearance, a soil proper for habitation fully as good as ours, if not perhaps better who can say that it is not extremely probable, nay beyond doubt, that there must be inhabitants on the Moon of some kind or other?

  William Herschel

  Science, Moon, Light

  William Herschel (2013). “The Scientific Papers of Sir William Herschel”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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