Blood and Soil

Blood and Soil (German: Blut und Boden) refers to an ideology that focuses on ethnicity based on two factors, descent (Blood (of a folk)) and homeland/Heimat (Soil). It celebrates the relationship of a people to the land they occupy and cultivate, and it places a high value on the virtues of rural living.

Read more about Blood And Soil:  Rise, Nazi Ideology, Nazi Implementation, Japanese Usage

Famous quotes containing the words blood and/or soil:

    The blood we give the dead to drink
    is deeds we do at the will of the dead spirits in us,
    not our own live will.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    Men nowhere, east or west, live yet a natural life, round which the vine clings, and which the elm willingly shadows. Man would desecrate it by his touch, and so the beauty of the world remains veiled to him. He needs not only to be spiritualized, but naturalized, on the soil of earth.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)