Ralph Waldo Emerson Soil Quotations

Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.