Soil Quotes

All artists experience a lull in their work. It is a period of replenishing the soil - of plowing in and turning under our past experiences and watering them afresh with new ones.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree