"Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee."

Job 12:8

"You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people."

Joel Salatin, American Farmer

"I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as a nation, and it's a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy."

Mike Rowe, American Actor

"Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work, and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty."

Mike Rowe, American Actor

"There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet."

Howard Warren Buffett, Public Relations Professor, Social Change Advocate

"Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses."

Virgil, Roman Poet

"I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich."

Larry Holmes, American Professional Boxer

"In the development of antibiotics, the soil microbiological population has contributed more than its share. It is to the soil that the microbiologists came in search of new antibacterial agents."

Selman Waksman, American Inventor/Biochemist/Microbiologist

"People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die."

Plato, Philosopher

"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Poet

"I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands."

Babe Ruth

"I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold."

Eartha Kitt, Singer

"The winter period between September and March, 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."

Vinod Khosla, Indian Engineer/Businessman

"When our soils are gone, we too, must go unless we find some way to feed on raw rock."

Thomas C. Chamberlain, American Geologist

"A nation that destroys its soils, destroys itself."

Franklin Roosevelt, U.S President

"One man cannot stop the dust from blowing but one man can start it."

U.S. Farm Security Administration

"Since the achievement of our independence, he is the greatest patriot, who stops the most gullies."

Patrick Henry, Attorney/Planter/Orator

"To protect your rivers, protect your mountains."

Emperor Yu, Chinese Emperor

"Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt."

John Muir, Naturalist, father of the National Parks 1838-1914