Soil Regeneration Quotes

For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.

What was earth, we made into filth. We must at least be able to transform it back to earth.

Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.

The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up.

Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.

We have to stop treating soil like dirt.

Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.

It's as if the whole notion of growing soil is something only lunatics would think about. But why not grow soil? Does anything make more sense than growing soil? Isn't that more important than tractors, trucks, silos, barns, county fairs and country music? Of course it is. And yet to the lion's share of American farmers, the very notion of growing soil is just plain silly.

Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.

In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.

The greenhouse is driven by three things: economy, flavor, ecology. Where ecology is what's being grown in this micro-ecology that can simultaneously thrive and better the soil/rotation, not just the flavor.