Soil Colour

Famous quotes containing the words soil and/or colour:

“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)

“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)