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“We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.”
- Leonardo Da Vinci, circa 1500’s
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“Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.”
- Charles E. Kellogg USDA Yearbook of Agriculture, 1938
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"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
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"There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements"
- Aldo Leopold
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"Filthy water cannot be washed."
- West African Proverb
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“....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.Actor and Activist
