In the beginning it is noted that she stops to collect soil from plants as well as some blood from a dead pig.

He roamed the grounds surrounding his home, collecting soil to mix in mud pots for paint.

Using knowledge of various scientific disciplines, ecologists may collect, study, and report data on the quality of air, food, soil, and water.

Termites, for example, may burrow downward many meters into weathered and unweathered parent material to collect moist soil for constructing their surface mounds (termitaria).

To be sure of finding plenty of animals it is best to collect rich, loose, moist soil from a well-cultivated garden-bed, or from a hedge-bank.

I've collected soil, vegetation, and insect samples that will help narrow that down.

To control for variation in soil nutrients due to seasonal fluctuations, we collected soil from 22 sites within a month during the spring of 1999.

That opened up into a higher valley, a large bowl-shaped depression that had survived long enough to collect soil to support the growth of small trees.

It is common for players to collect soil from the stadium as a souvenir.

Apu was one of the largest of the islets scattered along the Ell reef, and had collected enough soil over the years to support not only underbrush, but several palms.