Soil Quotes - Page 30

• Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited upon our European soil and, as one of countless human beings, I can't claim any special place for myself except that, as an Austrian, a Jew, writer, humanist and pacifist, I have always been precisely in those places where the effects of the thrusts were most violent.

  Stefan Zweig

  Special, Upheaval, Violent

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• So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Healthy, Mind

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• Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates the conditions necessary to lasting fertility of the soil. By this action it destroys at the same time the health of the town labourer and the intellectual life of the rural labourer.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Intellectual, Fertility

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)”, p.1529, Delphi Classics

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• It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the pine tree as his enemy. He will fell it and let in the light, grub it up and raise wheat or rye there. It is no better than a fungus to him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Men, Light

  David R. Foster, Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape”, p.38, Harvard University Press

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• What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the enterprise of a few individuals, that is brave and practical; but as the enterprise of the State, it is cowardice and imbecility. What odds where we squat, or bow much ground we cover? It is not the soil that we would make free, but men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Men, Odds

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.135, David M Gross

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• If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language of these fields that I may the better express myself. If I should travel to the prairies, I should much less understand them, and my past life would serve me but ill to describe them. Many a weed here stands for more of life to me than the big trees of California would if I should go there. We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Weed, Travel, Strong

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.346, Yale University Press

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• Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole.

  Nnimmo Bassey

  Oil, Coal, Holes

  "Naomi Klein kick-starts the activism at Copenhagen with call for disobedience" by Bibi van der Zee, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Dream, Rain, Choices

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “A Winter Dream: A Novel”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• The carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake or a sheaf of barley; the Mistress of the Animals suckles goats and gazelles. There are male Adorants certainly - up on tiptoe, their outstretched arms hoisted in a kind of heil, their bodies arched suggestively, pelvis forward, before the Goddess - but there are no masculine deities, not a single one in sight. No woman worth her salt, one might think, could fail to be intrigued.

  Alison Fell

  Animal, Thinking, Sight

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• There isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man

  Oliver Cromwell

  Men, Water, Tree

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• A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. Once begun it has to be carried to its conclusion, and carrying it there sets in motion events that may be beyond men's control. Doing what has to be done to win, men perform acts that alter the very soil in which society's roots are nourished.

  Bruce Catton

  Peace, War, Winning

  Bruce Catton (1985). “The Civil War”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• O ye by wandering tempest sown
  'Neath every alien star,
  Forget not whence the breath was blown
  That wafted you afar!
  For ye are still her ancient seed
  On younger soil let fall—
  Children of Britain's island-breed,
  To whom the Mother in her need
  Perchance may one day call.

  William Watson

  Mother, Stars, Children

  William Watson, “England And Her Colonies”

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• Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

  Elizabeth George

  Joy, Hindrance

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• I know that wine is, above all else, a blessing, a gift of nature, a joy as pure and elemental as the soil and vines and sunshine from which it springs.

  Robert Mondavi

  Spring, Wine, Sunshine

  Robert Mondavi (1999). “Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of each sort of hay will feed and fatten; what quantity of grain and other commodities the same acre will bear in one, three or seven years; unto what use each soil is proper; all which particulars I call intrinsic value, for there is also another value merely accidental or extrinsic.

  William Petty

  Years, Bears, Three

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• I think that if people would be willing to grow some of their own food or eat locally grown organic foods on a regular basis we could significantly decrease the amount of harmful chemicals we pump into our soil every day.

  Gary Player

  Thinking, People, Pumps

  Source: blog.vegansa.com

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• Today the intelligence of the world denies the miraculous. Ignorance is the soil of the supernatural. The foundation of Christianity has crumbled, has disappeared, and the entire fabric must fall. The natural is true. The miraculous is false.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Fall, Ignorance, Foundation

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4160, Library of Alexandria

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• We National Socialists must hold unflinchingly to our aim in foreign policy, namely to secure for the German people the land and soil to which they are entitles on this earth. And this action is the only one which, before God and or German posterity, would make any sacrifice of blood seem justified: before God, since we have been put on this earth with the mission of eternal struggle for our daily bread.

  Adolf Hitler

  Struggle, Sacrifice, Land

  Adolf Hitler (1943). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Proliferation of fanatical religious terrorists with safe harbors in broken countries, and the means to obtain and the will to use nuclear, chemical and biological weapons on our soil.

  Pete Olson

  Country, Religious, Mean

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• Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Home, Mean

  "Drain the swamp and there will be no more mosquitoes" by Noam Chomsky, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2002.

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• Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.

  Horace Walpole

  Rogues, Lawyer, Rich

  Horace Walpole (1967). “The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence”

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• What may be possible for a minority of humankind, albeit at great cost, simply cannot work for the humankind. Our kind of progress depends on lacerating the Earth,on gouging out its riches, on stripping is life-sustaining skin of soil and forest

  Jonathon Porritt

  Progress, Skins, Minorities

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• A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.

  George Meredith

  Wine, Imagination, House

  George Meredith (1995). “The Egoist”, p.159, Wordsworth Editions

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• I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.

  Martin Heidegger

  Pleasure, Native, Rooted

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• Texas is my mind's country, that place I most want to understand and record and preserve. Four generations of my people sleep in its soil; I have children there, and a grandson; the dead past and the living future tie me to it.

  Larry L. King

  Country, Children, Sleep

  Larry L. King (1985). “Warning, Writer at Work: The Best Collectibles of Larry L. King”, p.164, TCU Press

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