The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up.
There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.
Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil
Treating everyone she met like family, and burying needless critism of others so deep beneath the soil of everyday living that only kindness ever saw the light.
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.
The man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents.
I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture.
Soil with a lot of manure in it produces abundant crops; water that is too clear has no fish. Therefore, enlightened people should maintain the capacity to accept impurities and should not be solitary perfectionists.
Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.
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.
We are born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live on the same land, and why should we not be brothers and sisters?
No gassing took place in any camp on Germany soil.
Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds.
Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters
You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.
A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists.
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.
I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.