“Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them back on the soil, you couldn't feed more than 4 billion people. In addition, if all agriculture were organic, you would have to increase cropland area dramatically, spreading out into marginal areas and cutting down millions of acres of forests.” PeopleIfsHumansUseAnimalMillionsCuttingMaterialsWasteAreasIncreasePlantBillionsForestsSoilAgricultureAcresManureCutting Down Author:Norman Borlaug
“The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty to the best advantage of all, for this generation and others to come, is again apparent to every observant citizen.” NeedsWaterNaturalPracticeGenerationsCitizensResourcesAdvantageAreasForestsSoilWildlifeNatural ResourcesThis GenerationObservantInspirational Beauty Author:Walt Disney
“A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle: and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. In poetic minds and in popular enthusiasm this feeling becomes closely associated with the soil and the symbols of the country. But the secret sanctification of the soil and the symbol is the idea which they represent, and this idea the patriot worships through the name and the symbol, as a lover kisses with rapture the glove of his mistress and wears a lock of her hair upon his heart.” MenMindHeartIdeasCountryFeelingsCertainNamesSecretPrinciplesLandHairLoversMountainKissingWorshipAreasRiversWoodsLoyaltyEnthusiasmSymbolsSoilPatriotismPoeticLocksPatriotMistressGlovesRaptureSanctification Book:On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891 Source: On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891
“Syria has allowed its soil to be transited by foreign fighters who have come from a variety of source countries in the Gulf area and in the - in North African countries.There are some signs that that may have been reduced somewhat in the last couple of months. We need to watch that a bit and see if that is the case.” IfsNeedsMayHas BeensCountryLastsBitsWatchesCasesSourceMonthsCoupleAreasFighterVarietySoilSyria Author:David Petraeus
“Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the last six or eight months, the data on what is happening to the ice shelves in Greenland and the west Antarctic has begun to cause people to radically reassess the earlier conviction that those ice shelves were stable on a kind of century-long time scale.” PeopleWorldKindLongLastsCausesCenturyMonthsSixLong TimeHappeningsAreasWestConvictionEightScalesIceDataSoilStableShelvesMeltingArcticGreenland Author:Bill McKibben