Top 1200 Fertile Soil Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The cosmic calendar is quite a fertile mode for communicating how small we are over time and space.

You compare the nation to a parched piece of land and the tax to a life-giving rain. So be it. But you should also ask yourself where this rain comes from, and whether it is not precisely the tax that draws the moisture from the soil and dries it up. You should also ask yourself further whether the soil receives more of this precious water from the rain than it loses by the evaporation?

Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.

I try to find creative ways to put ideas out to make the ground fertile for organizers.

The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.

People think that it is negative, but in fact, chaos can be very fertile.

The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.

Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.

When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.

We have a camp up in the Adirondacks with no electricity, and I find that it's one of the most fertile places for me as far as songwriting because there isn't much to do.

The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere, the plants and the soil, are all of roughly the same size. This means that large human disturbance of any one of these reservoirs will have large effects on all three. We cannot hope either to understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

Humanity needs a new soil - the soil of freedom. Bohemianism was a reaction, a necessary reaction, but if my vision succeeds then there will be no bohemianism because there will be no so-called collective mind trying to dominate people. Then everybody will be at ease with himself. Of course, you have not to interfere with anybody, but as far as your life is concerned you have to live it on your own terms. Then only is there creativity. Creativity is the fragrance of individual freedom.

Never short of guns and guerrillas, Afghanistan has proven fertile ground for a host of insurgent groups in addition to the Taliban.

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if they can make women fertile after menopause.

Why should the immediate opportunity set be the only one considered, when tomorrow's may well be considerably more fertile than today's?

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground?

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

My errors were more fertile than I ever imagined.

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

Through our CO2 emissions, we are making the earth a more fertile world.

Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration and becomes a fertile recruiting ground for extremism.

What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.

Intentions are a lot like seeds. You shove them into the ground, and every once in awhile, you water them. Largely, the seed does most of the work on its own. If, on one hand, you were digging the seed up several times a day to see what progress was being made, the seed would not take purchase in the soil. On the other hand, if you completely ignored it, giving no water or nourishment to the soil, the seed might not thrive.

All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.

Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.

Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by the careless acts of millions of people. It cannot be saved by heroic feats of gigantic technology, but only by millions of small acts and restraints, conditioned by small fidelities, skills, and desires. Soil loss is ultimately a cultural problem; it will be corrected only by cultural solutions.

The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. It was good for the skin to touch the earth and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth. Their tipis were built upon the earth and their altars were made of earth. The birds that flew into the air came to rest upon the earth and it was the final abiding place of all things that lived and grew. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.

Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate rock and the planet's green carpet, lifeless minerals are weathered from stones or decomposed from organic debris. Plants and microscopic animals eat these dead particles and recast them as living matter. In the soil, matter recrosses the boundary between living and dead; and, as we have seen, boundaries-edges-are where the most interesting and important events occur.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle: and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. In poetic minds and in popular enthusiasm this feeling becomes closely associated with the soil and the symbols of the country. But the secret sanctification of the soil and the symbol is the idea which they represent, and this idea the patriot worships through the name and the symbol, as a lover kisses with rapture the glove of his mistress and wears a lock of her hair upon his heart.

The lack of trust in supranational entities and cosmopolitan elite creates a fertile ground for tribalist belongings and reactionary politics.

We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys. We can turn the most luxuriant forests into throw-away paper products. We can tear apart the great grass cover of the western plains and pour toxic chemicals into the soil and pesticides onto the fields until the soil is dead and blows away in the wind. We can pollute the air with acids, the rivers with sewage, the seas with oil - all this in a kind of intoxication with our power for devastation at an order of magnitude beyond all reckoning.

My most fertile reading time is when I have just finished a project and haven't started another. I binge-read and surf around bookstores.

I think mockumentaries are such well-trodden grounds for comedies. It has been done a lot, but it is because of that informal nature, it's such a fertile ground to be funny.

I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well.

Soil is a resource, a living, breathing entity that, if treated properly, will maintain itself. It's our lifeline for survival. When it has finally been depleted, the human population will disappear. . . . Project you imagination into the soil below you next time you go into the garden. Think with compassion of the life that exists there. Think, the drama, the sexuality, the harvesting, the work that carries on ceaselessly. Think about the meaning of being a steward for the earth.

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.

The mishandling of the migration question in Europe has certainly created a very fertile ground for protest parties.

Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.

The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen far more efficiently than trees. The turnover is faster. Grass reaches out and turns solar energy into carbon. Tillage hyper-aerates the soil, burning out carbon. But because a plant creates bilateral symmetry at the soil horizon, it sloughs off root mass when the top gets chopped off.

The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.

The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is a place where we can externalize costs. The cost of pesticides to the farmer and the cost of the pesticides to the soil and groundwater are regarded similarly by the public: "a serious problem that something ought to be done about." But the problem is more fundamental than this glib statement would indicate, for soil pollution is an expense of production. So are pesticides and nitrates in our farm wells. So is the loss of farmers from the land.

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

The paradox is the seed of truth. This germ just needs a fertile ground to flourish and bear fruit.

The lack of societal and institutional safeguards provides fertile ground for populist movements fueled by fear.

Everyday, day & night, we hear the lies that September 11th is the worst tragedy, worst accident, and worst crime to ever been committed on American soil. We bear witness that the worst crime, the worst tragedy, that has ever taken place on American soil is not September 11th. It's not the twin towers. It's the holocaust that black folks been dealing with for 400 years.

Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

In Kenya, one of our biggest exports is coffee. Where do you grow coffee? You grow coffee in the land. To be able to grow coffee you need rain, you need special kinds of soils that are found on hillsides, and that means you have to protect that land from soil erosion so you don't lose the soil. You also want to make sure that when the rains come you're going to be able to hold that water and have it go into the ground so that the streams and the rivers keep flowing and the ground is relatively humid for these plants.

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.