#soil

There is no chronic disease to be found among fish and animal life in the sea that compares to those on land. It is also known that all land animals develop arteriosclerosis, yet sea animals have never been diagnosed as arteriosclerotic. ↗

— Dr. Maynard Murray

#sea-agriculture #sea-salt-nutrition #soil #life

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues. ↗

— John Dewey

#soil #art

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#gets #grateful #grow #humble #man

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. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#been #difficult #education #eradicate #firm

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. ↗

— Pam Brown

#calls #completely #drying #every #just

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#grows #slavery #soil #weed

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil. ↗

— William Dampier

#being #best #dry #generally #i

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#american #criticism #foot #government #iranian

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses. ↗

— Virgil

#consider #each #refuses #soil #will

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. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#colors #does #example #flower #for example