Soil Colour

Famous quotes containing the words soil and/or colour:

“But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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