77 Fertile Ground Quotes
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Famous Fertile Ground Quotes
Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind. — Teresa of Avila
Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground. — Marcus Buckingham
The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow. — Bruce Lee
The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground. — Rumi
Once you plant seeds of success, your tree will bear fierce fruit. — Tyra Banks
The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass. — Wendell Berry
Within the soil of a discouraging season can often be the seeds of incredible blessing, miracles and breakthrough! — Brian Houston
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit — Seneca
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. — Ovid
The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil. — Rachel Carson
Inside every seed is the potential for an incredible harvest. — Farrah Gray
Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is. — Barbara Johnson
Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are. — Rumi
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. — Douglas William Jerrold
Short Fertile Ground Quotes
- Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild. — James Allen
- What is planted in each person's soul will sprout. — Rumi
- Plant rice when the ground is ready; pursue women when you feel the passion. — Tibetan Proverbs
- Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection. — John Powell
- It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest. — Orison Swett Marden
- Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes. — Andrea Gibson
- Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good. — Marcus Aurelius
- Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves. — Confucius
- Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept. — Saint Francis de Sales
- Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys. — Billy Graham
Fertile Soil Quotes
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. — Ben Stein
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. — Mahatma Gandhi
With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there is no future. — Jaggi Vasudev
In this busy world, we should never be a stranger to love and compassion. It is the fertile soil in the garden of peace. — Steve Maraboli
I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early morning ones, and there is dew on the grass, and the day is forever unproved, where I might have a fertile unknown for a soil about me. — Henry David Thoreau
Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust itsvitality. It needs constant re-invigoration if it is not to become arid and sterile. — Elizabeth Drew
Weeds don't need planting in well-drained soil; they don't ask for fertilizer or bits of rag to scare away the birds. They come without invitation; and they don't take the hint when you want them to go. Weeds are nobody's guests: More like squatters. — Norman Nicholson
Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God's Word. — Billy Graham
Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization. — Albert Howard
It is not half so important to know as to feel. — Rachel Carson
People Writing About Fertile Ground
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Rumi |
1754 | 29170 |
 Teresa of Avila |
230 | 3664 |
 Marcus Buckingham |
100 | 606 |
 Bruce Lee |
492 | 11325 |
 Tyra Banks |
82 | 1142 |
 Wendell Berry |
487 | 3716 |
More Fertile Ground Quotes
There’s a wide world out there. We shouldn’t think that crypto is going to be the most fertile ground to work in forever. — Sam Bankman-Fried
Thank God for the tsunami, and thank God that two thousand dead Swedes are fertilizing the ground over there [in Asia]. How many of these two thousand, do you suppose, were fags and dykes? This is how the Lord deals with His enemies. And the Lord has got some enemies. And Sweden heads the list. You filthy Swedes. You filthy Swedes! — Fred Phelps
When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny. — Allen West
What one person can do is to plant the seeds of love and outrage in the hearts of a movement. And if those hearts are fertile ground, those seeds of love and outrage will grow into a revolution. — Tim DeChristopher
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? — Maria Rodale
We need to remind each other that the cup of sorrow is also the cup of joy, that precisely what causes us sadness can become the fertile ground for gladness. — Henri Nouwen
Chaos theory, a more recent invention, is equally fertile ground for those with a bent for abusing sense. It is unfortunately named, for 'chaos' implies randomness. Chaos in the technical sense is not random at all. It is completely determined, but it depends hugely, in strangely hard-to-predict ways, on tiny differences in initial conditions. — Richard Dawkins
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction. — Alan Lightman
Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds. — Dan Brown
The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction. — Khaled Hosseini
God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts. — Henry Ward Beecher
Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss. — K. D. Lang
Uncertainty is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom. — Deepak Chopra
I think sadness and anger are really fertile ground for comedy. No one is really interested in a happy person doing comedy. — Zach Galifianakis
You can take the high moral ground intellectually, but if it ever happens to you personally, I don't know that I could honestly say that I wouldn't want to kill someone who took someone away from me. So, it's a rich, fertile ground for great characters and great storytelling. That was the impetus. — Richard LaGravenese
Our minds work like a garden. It is fertile ground that accepts any and everything we plant. Good or evil, constructive or destructive, our lives will bear the fruit of the seeds we plant in our minds. — Iyanla Vanzant
What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love. — Henri Nouwen
Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground on which its own immortal structure shall be raised. Let it, like the Nile, flood all the country that it is destined to make fertile. — Giuseppe Mazzini
A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important. — Lee R. Raymond
To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky. — Dag Hammarskjold
The lack of trust in supranational entities and cosmopolitan elite creates a fertile ground for tribalist belongings and reactionary politics. — Elif Shafak
You're going to run into a great deal of opinions. I think that's just fertile ground for us. What else would you want to write a show about than something that is that much of a pressure cooker, that has that much influence and impact? We're going to run into a lot of different opinions, but it's inspiring to me that newsmen and newswomen have reached out and said how thrilled they are with what we're doing. — Thomas Sadoski
The nineties as a pop cultural sphere was a really fertile time for feminism that was grounded and located in popular culture. I'm talking about before the Spice Girls - Sassy Magazine, riot grrrl, the Beastie Boys, Nirvana. You had this alternative culture that was very much speaking up on behalf of women and in favor of women. — Andi Zeisler
We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art. — Morgan Parker
If you can make something genuine, then the ground is fertile for introducing something new. And that happened a few times in my life where I could sow the seeds and see something grow out of it. — Eddy de Clercq
The paradox is the seed of truth. This germ just needs a fertile ground to flourish and bear fruit. — Leo Errera
In the food case in particular, one of the technologies that could help there - genetic technologies that could create better crops with higher yields and less need for water and fertilizer - is tremendously feared. Very little of that fear is scientifically grounded. — Ramez Naam
Wherever the Net arises, there arises also a rebel to resist human control...A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often. It is...fertile ground for learning, adaptation, and evolution...The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All other topologies limit what can happen. — Kevin Kelly
Since Hollywood seems to be more interested in people wearing tights and using powers, there seems to be a fertile ground for movies about real human beings. — Ramin Bahrani
Hope is like air if not built on a fertile ground. A ground that requires attention and nurturing. You cannot stop working on that ground even if the hope is sprouting higher into the sky. — Michael Bassey
There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground. — Werner Herzog
Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope. — Tami Hoag
You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left off, do not expect that son to be what you were, - diligent, modest, active, simple in his tastes, fertile in resources. You have put him under quite a different master. Poverty educated you; wealth will educate him. You cannot suppose the result will be the same. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
You can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid forms of music and hybrid forms of show, if you draw from many, many different wells. It's just unfortunate so many rock'n'roll stars only bother to learn how to play like Led Zeppelin and/or the Rolling Stones and that's what you get, disc after disc and show after show. — David Lee Roth
I know it is possible not only to restore trust but to actually enhance it. The difficult things that we got through with the important people in our lives can become fertile ground for the growth of enduring trust - trust that is actually stronger because it's been tested and proved through challenge. — Stephen Covey
Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces of humankind. What redeems you is that in every man and woman there is a seed that can grow to encompass love, joy and compassion. But this seed is never allowed to prosper in fertile ground. It struggles for life among the rocks of your human soul. — David Gemmell
The Truth must be told at all costs, no matter how unpopular it may be. The authentic spiritual leader, having freed himself of his own false need to be popular, tells the Truth whether it falls on fertile or stony ground. Such a teacher is the salt of the earth, though few know it. If you think the world is delirious as is, you would find it intolerable without his healing influence. — Vernon Howard
Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief. . . . As it prods me to explosions of disagreement, it also provokes useful thought. — Janet Lembke
It's a robust time, probably the most fertile time for the underground and for revolution since Nixon. I'm not talking about political overthrow; I'm talking about just general cultural revolution. Bush has polarised the country and is creating this breeding ground for an opposition. In the next couple of months, they'll probably make it unpatriotic to be Democrat. It's pretty crazy. — Neil Young
In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom. — Deepak Chopra
The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile! — Miguel Angel Ruiz
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