Soil Health Quotes

Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.

The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.

After the Green Revolution, I came up with the concept of the Evergreen Revolution. In this we will see increase in farm productivity but without ecological harm.

I want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land.

Unkindness to anything means an injustice to that thing. If I am unkind to you I do you an injustice, or wrong you in some way. On the other hand, if I try to assist you in every way that I can to make a better citizen and in every way to do my very best for you, I am kind to you. The above principles apply with equal force to the soil. The farmer whose soil produces less every year, is unkind to it in some way; that is, he is not doing by it what he should; he is robbing it of some substance it must have, and he becomes, therefore, a soil robber rather than a progressive farmer.

China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that its soils are still healthy after four millennia of intensive agriculture, while other great civilizations - the Maya, for one - floundered when their soils turned to dust.

A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.

There is talk about the need for a second Green Revolution. However, such a revolution is nowhere in sight.

Turns out tomato feed is the gift that keeps on giving. It's good for any plant.

Soil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development

I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to use more herbicides, not less. The same holds true with BT.

A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.

Agricultural husbandry essentially maintains the balance of bound nitrogen.

It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

If in the human economy, a squash in the field is worth more than a bushel of soil, that does not mean that food is more valuable than soil; it means simply that we do not know how to value the soil. In its complexity and its potential longevity, the soil exceeds our comprehension; we do not know how to place a just market value on it, and we will never learn how. Its value is inestimable; we must value it, beyond whatever price we put on it, by respecting it.

Under natural conditions, the soil does not lose its fixed nitrogen.

The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax.

It helps to think of soil as a living organism covered with skin like a human. We can live with a certain percentage of our skin damaged, but if too high a percentage is damaged, we die. So, too, does soil and thus most life

You can't chemical your way out of soil infertility

Natural farming is just farming, nothing more. You don't have to be a spiritually oriented person to practice my methods.

Depending on how you farm, your farm is either sequestering or releasing carbon.

If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere.

The winter period between September and March in this country, when land sits fallow and is subject to topsoil loss, we could be enriching the soil and growing all the biomass we need to replace imported gasoline.

Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.

All soils are not fertile.