There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.