Soil Erosion

Famous quotes containing the words soil and/or erosion:

    “The point of the dragonfly’s terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows, is not that it all fits together like clockwork--for it doesn’t ... but that it all flows so freely wild, like the creek, that it all surges in such a free, finged tangle. Freedom is the world’s water and weather, the world’s nourishment freely given, its soil and sap: and the creator loves pizzazz.”
    —Annie Dillard (b. 1945)

    “Inter-railers are the ambulatory equivalent of McDonalds, walking testimony to the erosion of French culture.”
    —Alice Thompson (b. 1963)