You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

Under natural conditions, the soil does not lose its fixed nitrogen.

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.

The soil is not a mass of dead debris, merely resulting from the physical and chemical weathering of rocks; it is a more or less homogeneous system which has resulted from the decomposition of plant and animal remains. It is teeming with life.

The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

Protect the consumer by owning the product all the way from the soil to the table.

Cinema should always be in touch with the soil of the country. My films celebrate the heartland of India.

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.

Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.

Soil is a living ecosystem, and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.