One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the moment he sets foot on British soil.
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
Freedom's soil hath only place For a free and fearless race!
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.
Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage in the hands or prehistoric man. It has been going on ever since, wherever man's culture of the earth has bared the soil to rain and wind.
Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters
Saints can spring from any soil.
The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.
Soil is a living ecosystem and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.
Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.
Optimism will grow like a flower if the soil be properly prepared.
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love] There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene Only then I am human Only then I am clean
The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own time and the problems of other contemporary artists. Paths cross and the soil of time is starting to be turned.
Truth has to fall on fertile soil.
evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.