Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.

Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and graceful boughs and frisky kittens and sleepy lagoons.

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

Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

Friends , the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests .

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.