The fate of the soil system depends on society's willingness to intervene in the market place, and to forego some of the short-term benefits that accrue from 'mining' the soil so that soil quality and fertility can be maintained over the longer term.
All that foreign oil controlling American soil.
Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it.
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.
Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.
The soil of Palestine still enjoys her sabbaths, and only waits for the return of her banished children, and the application of industry, commensurate with her agricultural capabilities, to burst once more into universal luxuriance, and be all that she ever was in the days of Solomon.
Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
If the soil were as good as the harbors, it would be a blessing.
Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.
Too often, the pastoralist blames the weeds and seeks a chemical rather than a management solution; too seldom do we find an approach combining the sensible utilisation of grasshoppers and grubs as a valuable dried-protein supplement for fish or food pellets, and a combination of soil conditioning, slashing, and de-stocking or re-seeding to restore species balance.
No gassing took place in any camp on Germany soil.
Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.
The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to develop certain trains of thought. If we feel sad or angry, still others. But suppose, with training, we become nonattached to distractions and learn to dampen these wild, emotional swings on either side of equanimity. Then we can enter that serene awareness which is the natural soil for positive, spontaneous personal growth, often called spiritual growth.
Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.
Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.