The phrase "a distant soil" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a faraway place or land, often in a metaphorical or poetic context.
Example: "She longed for the familiar comforts of home, but her heart was drawn to a distant soil filled with untold stories."
Alternatives: "a faraway land" or "a remote territory".
Comic book winners include issues of DC's Green Lantern, The Authority and Gotham Central, and nominations have been given to titles from Marvel (X-Force, X-Statix), Dark Horse (Buffy Season Eight) and Image Comics (A Distant Soil).
Image comic's A Distant Soil, written by Colleen Doran, depicts an alien culture with exotic gender and sexual mores and gay romances that gained the series a Gaylactic Spectrum Award nomination.
Two of the characters in "A Distant Soil," Rice ken, who leads a planetary resistance movement, and his bodyguard and sometime lover, D' Mer, are both bisexual, and D 'Mer was once part of a male harem.
Most, however, use black and white, either to save on printing costs or to provide a starker feel, as in "Sin City and Johnny Cashsh: I See a Darkness;" Colleen Doran's original version of "A Distant Soil" had its drawings in pencil, without inking.
For Barzun, these systematic models of cause and effect run counter to the temper of history, which is intuitive, concrete, beholden to time and evidence: History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils.
Soil is considered to be the most microbially diverse habitat on Earth [ 30]; in fact, geographically distant soils within the Americas share only 4% similarity at the operational taxonomic unit (OTU) level [ 31].
Nevertheless, it is reasonable to expect that shared TRFLP peaks in plants grown on geographically distant soils might represent, minimally, different strains of the same microbial species or related species.
The migration of maize persists today, as breeders collect wild and exotic seed (as sources of diverse alleles) from sites of high genetic diversity in Mexico for breeding programs on distant soils.
To grow as a distant deposit, cells need to find suitable "soil" conditions in the target organ, such as the presence of growth-stimulating signals.
The vines there, grown in volcanic soils, are a direct link to a distant winemaking past -- now available for $15 to $50 a bottle.
If a tiny soil worm could do it, why not a hardy bacterium from a distant world, hitching a ride on a space rock or, dare we think it, sent by an advanced civilization?
