“You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. it will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.”

-Jacob Bronowski

“Soil, like air, like water is a natural resource that we must protect in order to have a future on planet earth”

-Terry Cooper

“The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself”

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

What is Soil?

Latin word Solum means ‘floor’ or ‘Ground’

S= Surface of earth    

0= Organic matter

I= Inorganic matter

L= Living organism

Layman

Dirt and unconsolidated rock

Oxford dictionary

Top layer of the earth in which plants, trees etc grows

Civil Engineer

Any earthy materials over bedrocks, which support foundations, roads, and airport run- ways and any buildings on the surface of the earth

Mining Engineer

Unwanted or rubbish materials, which cover the minerals, which must be quarry to reveal ores

Ecologist

Part of environment, which is conditioned by organism, and which, in turn, influences the organism

Historian

The earth is the record of the past. A nation and civilization writes its records on land and the record is easily read by man who can understand the simple language of the nature

Farmers

It is a medium of plant growth and production to earn food, clothing and shelter, for which he/she struggles and spends more of his/her time for economic security from the centuries. Knowledge of soil passes on from generation to generation, so he/she loves, crushes, sweats over it, and finally dies for it.  

Soil is the natural body developed by natural forces acting on natural materials. It is naturally developed into horizons from minerals and organic constituents of variable depth which differ from the parents material below in morphology, physical properties and constitution, chemical properties and composition and biological characteristics

- Joffe and Marbut, 1953

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