What is "native soil"

Usage examples of "native soil".

All along the side of the road, Lawrence could see tufts of dark green grass clogging the ruddy native soil.

Modern nations are fixed and permanent societies, connected among themselves by laws and government, bound to their native soil by arts and agriculture.

I stepped within, and felt, as I entered, that I trod my native soil.

And beyond that lay the native soil of the Moon, just subtle shades of gray, softly molded by a billion years of meteorite rain.

Under the reigns of Zeno and Anastasius, their artful leaders surprised the ear of the prince, usurped the thrones of the East, and crushed on its native soil the school of the Syrians.

These delights were enhanced by the memory of past hardships: the comparison of their native soil, the bleak and barren hills of Scythia, and the frozen banks of the Elbe and Danube, added new charms to the felicity of the Italian climate.

Instead, efforts were turned to establishing Earth crops in native soil in order to supplement Jockaira foodstuffs with sorts the humans were used to.

First the ground had to be bulldozed clean, and then great sterilizers had to lumber back and forth, killing every native seed and root and even the native soil bacteria.

Dracula, I realized, must be carrying with him, as part of his regular baggage, a supply of his native soil.

Her mother had been from Bran, and she herself could claim Minos for her native soil.

And we even agreed we could offer you your restoration to your native soil as recompense for this service.

But on the Outer Worlds, even with Terrestrian soil laid down to bedrock, they cannot keep rain from falling and rivers from flowing, so that there is an inevitable, if slow, admixture with the native soil.