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“The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged.”

Source: Land of the Spotted Eagle

“Mid-summer ... when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the senses are well-nigh intoxicated with the surging seas of moist verdure and the subtly indefinable odours of the soil and the vegetation. In such surroundings the mind loses its perspective; time and space become trivial and unreal, and echoes of a forgotten prehistoric past beat insistently upon the enthralled consciousness.”

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“And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?”

Ifs Nature Land Soil Contentment Sprung

Book:The Voice of the People

Source: The Voice of the People

“the various earth odors all have a separate tale to tell, and the leaf mold of the woods bears a wholly different fragrance from that of the soil under pasture turf, or the breath that the garden gives off in great sighs of relief when it is relaxed and refreshed by a summer shower.”

Giving Different Earth Nature Bears Summer Garden Breaths Various Woods Tales Soil Relief Showers Leafs Sigh Relaxed Fragrance Mold Odor Pastures Turf Sigh Of Relief

Author:Mabel Osgood Wright

“Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly industrious for millions of years. Yet their productiveness nourishes plants, animals, and soil. Human industry has been in full swing for little over a century, yet it has brought about a decline in almost every ecosystem on the planet. Nature doesn't have a design problem. People do.”

Source: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

“The point of the dragonfly's terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows,is not that it all fits together like clockwork--for it doesn'tbut that it all flows so freely wild, like the creek, that it all surges in such a free, finged tangle. Freedom is the world's water and weather, the world's nourishment freely given, its soil and sap: and the creator loves pizzazz.”

“Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.”

Men World Life Ideas Death Dies Individual Nature He Man Friends Climate Soil Vegetation

Book:The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937

Source: The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937

“When logics die, The secret of the soil grows through the eye, And blood jumps in the sun; Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.”

Eye Dies Grows Nature Secret Sun Blood Waste Logic Dawn Soil Vitality Halt Through The Eyes Allotments

Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.”

Knows Made Dream Seems Courses Lost Nature Dark Sun Tree Color Wind Bird Rain Roots Presses Clouds Warm Storm Rising Soil Afternoon Juice Nests Plunge Tranquil Sap Elementals Fermentation

Author:Jacques Roumain

“The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.”

Science Nations Nature Environment Land Soil Ecology Farming Our Environment Nature And Environment Eco Fertile Soil Land Conservation Destroying The Environment Destroying The Earth

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.”

“When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is confirmed in its pantheism.”

Body Earth Nature Born Animal Unions Plant Soil Pantheism Interbeing

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.”

People Ifs Humans May Children Long Earth Nature Generations Human Nature Roots Fortune Series Strikes My Children Soil Worn Potatoes Worn Out Birthplace

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.”

Wells Heart Grows Difficult Nature Education Known Sad Stones Prejudice Firm Soil Weed Well Known Cultural Diversity Conventionality Tolerance And Diversity

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place? This deciduous business alone is a radical scheme, the brainchild of a deranged manic-depressive with limitless capital. Extravagance! Nature will try anything once.”

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.”

People Ifs World Individual Nature Natural Chance Gone Environment Tree Rocks Destroyed Soil Wilderness Natural World Competent Vertical

Book:The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner

Source: The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner

“The world of life, of spontaneity, the world of dawn and sunset and starlight, the world of soil and sunshine, of meadow and woodland, of hickory and oak and maple and hemlock and pineland forests, of wildlife dwelling around us, of the river and its wellbeing--all of this [is] the integral community in which we live.”

World Nature Community Animal Rivers Forests Dawn Soil Sunset Sunshine Dwelling Spontaneity Wildlife Wellbeing Oaks Meadows Starlight Maple Woodland Hemlock

Author:Thomas Berry

“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”

Life Earth Nature Forget Humility Garden Soil Gardening Farming Gardener Mother Earth Nature And Environment Garden Love Inspirational Gardening Fertile Soil Organic Farming

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I learn from a tree? The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.”

“How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature.”

Thinking Doe Nature Behinds Example Color Flower Miracle Supreme Soil Ingredients Select Supreme Power Pansies

Author:Clyde Tombaugh