“Erosion is a slow and insidious process. Yet, controlling soil erosion is really quite simple: The soil can be protected with cover crops when the land is not being used to grow crops.”
David Pimentel
“The combination of the landscape fabric and the mulch stops light getting to the soil and slows or stops germination and growth of weeds.”
Debra Lidstone
“You shall not pile, with servile toil,/ Your monuments upon my breast,/ Nor yet within the common soil/ Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . .”
Edward Everett
“Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day”
Simone de Beauvoir
“Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.”
William Arthur Ward
“The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds”
David Hume
