one's native soil
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Out of the love of one's native soil, they have made Nationalists; out of Jesus they have made Jesuits.
From Light by Wray, Fitzwater
Love of one's native soil is a feeling which nature has implanted in the human breast, and that has always been peculiarly strong in the breasts of Englishmen.
From Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. by Cobbett, William
Sod′dy, covered with sod: turfy.—The old sod, one's native soil.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
