Earth Quotes

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When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.

-David Orr

If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life:  worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ...
Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.
-   Wendell Berry,  The Unsettling of America, 1977

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance,
the wise grows it under his feet.
-   James Oppenheim

.... if I wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study and help
it to the utmost, untiringly. .... Always, the soil must come first.
-   Marion Cran, If I Where Beginning Again

The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those
intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view...
The essence of a field is that the cultural accommodates the
natural there. The human being makes room for and makes use
of those organisms that are not him. In that way the field is a poem
to symbiosis, and a human contract with the natural.
-  Adam Nicolson

The poetry of the earth is never dead.
-  John Keats

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself.  Forests are the lungs of
our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
-   Franklin D. Roosevelt