#1 When you are in touch with the soil, it is not just an intellectual reminder – your body is reminded in a very fundamental way that it is just a piece of earth. – Sadhguru

#2 Agriculture can only thrive on rich soil – there is simply no other way. Regeneration of soil is ‘invigoration of life’. – Sadhguru

#3 A land with rich soil & abundant water is the best gift we can offer to future generations – Sadhguru

#4 Your body is not any different from the planet itself, it’s just a piece which has popped up – Sadhguru

#5 Soil is not a commodity – it’s a life-MAKING ingredient – Sadhguru

#6 If the soil strength weakens, our bodies will weaken – not just in terms of nourishment, but in a very fundamental way. – Sadhguru

#7 Living Soil, our very body, is moving towards extinction. Addressing this with utmost urgency is the most important responsibility that all nations have to fulfill. – Sadhguru

#8 Without reversing soil degradation, there is simply no way to reconcile the rapid decline in food production with the exponential growth in population size. This is our greatest generational prerogative and most valuable legacy. – Sadhguru

#9 Our biological mother is only representative, the real mother is the soil – that we carry as body! – Sadhguru

#10 Magic of Soil
The Soil the soul of all
The life upon this precious
planet. Soil the very conundrum of life and death.
The only magic material
that turns death into life.
The magic of soil, the basis
of all riches of life we see.
Depleting soils can unleash
the unfed gastronomic fire to
burn and annihilate the very world
Let us not turn this magic
into Tragic…
– Sadhguru

#11 If we fix the soil, everything is fixed!! Water is fixed, air is fixed! – Sadhguru

#12 When we think of economy, we look at the stock market and a few other things. But sixty-five percent of our population is in rural areas. If we just double their income, our economy will go through the roof. – Sadhguru

#13 A large part of India’s land which was one of the world’s most fertile, is on the verge of becoming desert. 40% of India’s soil will become uncultivable in 25 years unless we take positive action now. (July 2020 stats) – Sadhguru

#14 Putting 40% of the land under tree shade through Tree-based Agriculture is the simplest way to avoid heating of the planet and in turn, climate change consequences. – Sadhguru

#15 Our body is essentially soil and water. The quality of our soil and water determines the quality of our food, our body, and our life. – Sadhguru

#16 We must impart to every human being that soil, water, and air are not resources to be used and thrown away. These are life-making ingredients. – Sadhguru

#17 If we value life and the lives of future generations, we have to take care of our Soil and Water. – Sadhguru

#18 Healthy soil is the basis of all Life on the planet. Without addressing the immediate need to preserve the organic content of our soil, food security will inevitably come under severe threat. – Sadhguru

#19 Right now, the most important aspect of conserving nature is the soil. If we do not stop soil degradation, the planet will not be conducive for human beings to live upon it. – Sadhguru

#20 Agricultural practice that are Soil-friendly are vital for the future of Humanity. The Human Body is a reflection of the Living Soil. – Sadhguru

#21 For me, action is about a solution, not about satisfaction. If we do not do the right stuff for Soil now, large-scale suffering will happen. – Sadhguru

#22 Health of the Soil and our health are directly related. Many physical and mental health issues are a consequence of lack of micronutrients in the Soil. Save Soil. – Sadhguru

#23 Soil is the most climate-friendly element on the planet. With recalibration of farming practices, soil can become an effective regulator of climate change. – Sadhguru

#24 Soil extinction is not just another ecological challenge. It is an existential threat. If we do the right things now, we can significantly turn this situation around and regenerate the soil in the next 15-25 years. – Sadhguru

#25 Creating a conscious planet is possible only by raising human consciousness. Important for all and leaders in particular, whose decisions affect millions of lives, to embrace Conscious & Inclusive leadership. – Sadhguru

#26 A cloak of loose, soft material, held to the earth’s hard surface by gravity, is all that lies between life and lifelessness. – Wallace H. Fuller

#27 There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery and the other that heat comes from the furnace. – Aldo Leopold

#28 While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil. – Thomas Jefferson

#29 Essentially, all life depends upon the soil… There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together. – Dr. Charles E Kellogg

#30 Plowed ground smells of earthworms and empires. – Justin Isherwood

#31 Upon this handful of soil our survival depends – Sanskrit text,1500 BC.

#32 For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth. – Xenophanes, 580 B.C.

#33 To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. – Mahatma Gandhi

#34 How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it? – William Bryant Logan

#35 We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot. – Leonardo Da Vinci

#36 If we have seed, soil, and water, we have the ingredients for a miracle. And yet, it is not in our nature to believe that a miracle can arise from something so simple. Therefore, we forsake the miracle in our search for the miracle. – Craig D. Lounsbrough

#37 Much like people, the seed always contained the tree. It just needed water and soil to release it. – Craig D. Lounsbrough

#38 We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. – Aldo Leopold

#39 … for only rarely have we stood back and celebrated our soils as something beautiful, and perhaps even mysterious. For what other natural body, worldwide in its distribution, has so many interesting secrets to reveal to the patient observer? – Les Molloy,

#40 If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy. – Thich Nhat Hanh

#41 The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. —Rachel Carson

#42 One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken. – Leo Tolstoy

#43 What you take from the earth, you must give back. That’s nature’s way. – Chris d’Lacey

#44 We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.- David Brower

#45 The Earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations. – John Paul II

#46 The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity. – Henry Ford

#47 We are overlooking soil as the foundation of all life on earth – Andres Arnalds

#48 Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. – Aldo Leopold

#49 The nation that destroys its soil, destroys itself. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#50 We are part of the earth and it is part of us … What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. – Chief Seattle

#51 Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is due to the influences of many things and events of the past. – Charles Kellogg

#52 The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. – Wendell Berry

#53 Nature has endowed the earth with glorious wonders and vast resources that man may use for his own ends. Regardless of our tastes or our way of living, there are none that present more variations to tax our imagination than the soil, and certainly none so important to our ancestors, to ourselves, and to our children. – Charles Kellogg

#54 A rainbow of soil is under our feet; red as a barn and black as a peat. It’s yellow as lemon and white as the snow; bluish gray. So many colors below. Hidden in darkness as thick as the night; The only rainbow that can form without light. Dig you a pit, or bore you a hole, you’ll find enough colors to well rest your soil. – F.D. Hole

#55 Be it deep or shallow, red or black, sand or clay, the soil is the link between the rock core of the earth and the living things on its surface. It is the foothold for the plants we grow. Therein lies the main reason for our interest in soils. – Roy W. Simonson

#56 Our industrial systems are taking carbon from the soil instead of building carbon in the soil. – Woody Tasch

#57… I cannot conceive of the time when knowledge of soils will be complete. Our expectation is that our successors will build on what has been done, as we are building on the work of our predecessors. – R.S. Smith

#58… the Latin name for man, homo, derived from humus, the stuff of life in the soil. – Dr. Daniel Hillel

#59 To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. – William Blake

#60 I saw all the people hustling early in the morning to go into the factories and the stores and the office buildings, to do their job, to get their check. But ultimately it’s not office buildings or jobs that give us our checks. It’s the soil. The soil is what gives us the real income that supports us all. – Ed Begley, Jr.

#61 I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf … than be king of all these dead and destroyed. – Homer, Odyssey

#62 Man and man’s earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. – Friedrich Nietzche

#63 As a farmer, man himself became closely attached to the landscape, firmly rooted to the soil that supported him. At times the soil seemed bountiful and kindly and again stubborn and unfriendly, but it was always a challenge to man’s cunning. – Charles E. Kellogg

#64 Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage in the hands or prehistoric man. It has been going on ever since, wherever man’s culture of the earth has bared the soil to rain and wind. – Hugh H. Bennett and W.C. Lowdermilk

#65 History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products of the soil. So direct, is the relationship between soil erosion, the productivity of the land, and the prosperity of people, that the history of mankind, to a considerable degree at least, may be interpreted in terms of the soil and what has happened to it as the result of human use. – Hugh H. Bennett and W.C. Lowdermilk

#66… if this is to be a permanent nation we must save this most indispensable of all our God-given assets — the soil, from which comes our food and raiment. If we fail in this, remember that much sooner than we have expected this will be a nation of subsoil farmers. – H.H. Bennett

#67 If the soil is destroyed, then our liberty of action and choice are gone … – W.C. Lowdermilk.

#68 Whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together. – Jonathan Swift

#69 Soils are developed; they are not merely an accumulation of debris resulting from decay of rock and organic materials … In other words, a soil is an entity — an object in nature which has characteristics that distinguish it from all other objects in nature. – C.E.Millar & L.M.Turk

#70 We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. It must be somewhere up there on the horizon, we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet. – William Bryant Logan.

#71 There is no such thing as a residual soil. – Roger Parsons

#72 Probably more harm has been done to the science by the almost universal attempts to look upon the soil merely as a producer of crops rather than as a natural body worth in and for itself of all the study that can be devoted to it, than most men realize. – C. F. Marbut

#73 The soil itself must be the object of observation and experiment and the facts obtained must be soil facts before they can be incorporated into soil science. The science of zoology was developed through the study of animals, that of botany through the study of plants, and soil science must be developed through the study of the soil. – C. F. Marbut

#74… the soil of any one place makes its own peculiar and inevitable sense. It is impossible to contemplate the life of the soil for very long without seeing it as analogous to the life of the spirit. – Wendell Berry

#75 Our most important job as vegetable gardeners is to feed and sustain soil life, often called the soil food web, beginning with the microbes. If we do this, our plants will thrive, we’ll grow nutritious, healthy food, and our soil conditions will get better each year. This is what is meant by the adage Feed the soil not the plants. – Jane Shellenberger

#76 Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#77 The Earth is a fine place and worth fighting for. – Ernest Hemingway

#78 The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it. – Barry Commoner

#79 We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do. – Barbara Ward

#80 There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. – Marshall McLuhan

#81 Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived. – Sidney Sheldon

#82 And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. – Kahlil Gibran

#83 When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money. —Alanis Obomsawin

#84 Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from the living earth. We are Earth. What we do to Earth, we do to our self. – Michael Dowd

#85 Earth and water, soil and stone, oaks and elms and willows, they were here before us all and will still remain when we are gone. – George R R Martin

#86 It is the duty of every citizen, for his own welfare, if for no other patriotic reason, to support and fight for and possibly initiate measures having to do with conservation of soil, water and forests. – Louis Bromfield

#87 When there are enough people on the land to use it but not enough to husband it, then the wildness of the soil that we call fertility begins to diminish, and the soil itself begins to flee from us in water and wind. – Wendell Berry

#88 The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats, and biodiversity. – Gaylord Nelson

#89 Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. —John Burroughs

#90 The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.- Gaylord Nelson

#91 Let every breath, every word and every step make the mother earth proud of us. – Amit Ray

#92 Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together … all things connect.- Native American Chief Seattle

#93 To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people’s trash. – Bill Nye

#94 The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. —Joseph Campbell

#95 The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. – Henry Miller

#96 I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want. – Andy Warhol

#97 For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it. – Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#98 Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known. – Carl Sagan

#99 So bleak is the picture…that the bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. – Philip Shabecoff

#100 Our national conservation effort must include the complete spectrum of resources: air, water, and land; fuels, energy, and minerals; soils, forests, and forage; fish and wildlife. Together they make up the world of nature which surrounds us- of the American heritage. – John F. Kennedy

#101 The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right only when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community and the community includes the soil, waters, fauna, and flora, as well as people. – Aldo Leopold

#102 When the soil’s fertility is being conserved instead of expolited, when village life is a social unity, when pride of craftsmanship returns, when everyone works for the sake of adding beauty and importance to life, when every river is clean and bright, and the proud words ‘I serve’ are in everyone’s heart and purpose. Then my country will be good enough for me. – Henry Williamson

#103 Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land’s inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery. – Wendell Berry

#104 I have a dream…
I dream of undoing the damage we’ve done.
I dream of clean water, clean air and clean soil.
Will you dream with me? – Brooke Hampton

#105 If we weren’t so dirt-conscious, we would obtain adequate vitamin B12 from soil, air, water, and bacteria, but we meticulously wash and peel our vegetables now – and with good reason, as we can’t be sure our soil is not contaminated with pesticides and herbicides. – Sharon Gannon

#106 One of the major problems is what we do to the soil, the air, the water and everything, we take in our food. – Charlotte Gerson

#107 If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us. – David Suzuki

#108 Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

#109 We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is. – William Vogt

#110 From every conceivable angle—economic, social, cultural, public health, national defense— conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree. – Hugh Hammond Bennett

#111 Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment. – Will Rogers

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead