To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. – Mahatma Gandhi
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another. – Mahatma Gandhi
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. – Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. – Mahatma Gandhi
We think that diamonds are very important, gold is very important, all these minerals are very important. We call them precious minerals, but they are all forms of the soil. But that part of this mineral that is on top, like it is the skin of the earth, that is the most precious of the commons. – Wangari Maathai (1940–2011), Dirt! The Movie, 2009