86 Fertile Soil Quotes
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Famous Fertile Soil Quotes
Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind. — Teresa of Avila
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. — Douglas William Jerrold
Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes. — Andrea Gibson
If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long. — Wendell Berry
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. — Aldo Leopold
Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil. — Hugh Hammond Bennett
The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass. — Wendell Berry
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit — Seneca
The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow. — Bruce Lee
Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man. — George Ellwanger
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. — Ovid
Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains. — Paul Harvey
Within the soil of a discouraging season can often be the seeds of incredible blessing, miracles and breakthrough! — Brian Houston
Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is. — Barbara Johnson
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot — Dixie Lee Ray
Short Fertile Soil Quotes
- The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground. — Rumi
- Inside every seed is the potential for an incredible harvest. — Farrah Gray
- The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil. — Rachel Carson
- Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are. — Rumi
- The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor. — Jim Rohn
- To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. — Mahatma Gandhi
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
Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground. — Marcus Buckingham
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
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
Fertilization Quotes
The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination. — Maria Montessori
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end. — John Lennon
I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger. — Eartha Kitt
Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. — Shel Silverstein
It can’t be stressed enough: Western total fertility numbers cannot be trusted. We’re still counting Boomer/Gen X fertility rates even though they’ve long stopped reproducing. The millennials/Gen Z are effectively barren. Huge demographic collapse inbound. — Philip Pilkington
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place. — David R. Brower
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen. — Dick Armey
I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude.... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. — Gary Snyder
Fluoride is not a nutrient. It is a byproduct of the fertilizer phosphate industry. Many children now exceed the recommended daily intake. — Mark Burhenne
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. — Evelyn Waugh
People Writing About Fertile Soil
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Wendell Berry |
487 | 3716 |
 Rumi |
1754 | 29170 |
 Teresa of Avila |
230 | 3664 |
 Douglas William Jerrold |
86 | 498 |
 Andrea Gibson |
98 | 1625 |
 Aldo Leopold |
203 | 1476 |
More Fertile Soil Quotes
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. — Ben Stein
It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil, spring up into deathless friendships, big deeds of worth, and a memory that will not soon fade out. We are all sowers of seeds-and let us never forget it! — George Matthew Adams
Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates the conditions necessary to lasting fertility of the soil. By this action it destroys at the same time the health of the town labourer and the intellectual life of the rural labourer. — Karl Marx
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
You can't tear up everything just to get the dollar out of it without suffering as result. It is a travesty to burn our woods and thereby burn up the fertilizer nature has provided for us. We must enrich our soil every year instead of merely depleting it. It is fundamental that nature will drive away those who commit sin against it. — George Washington Carver
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
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds. — David Hume
When you assess your own life, consider it with the eye of a gardener. Underneath the surface lies rich, fertile soil waiting to nurture the seeds you sow. Even more than you can imagine will grow there if given a chance. — Steve Goodier
The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand. — Russell Baker
Weeds play an important part in building soil fertility and in balancing the biological community . . . — Masanobu Fukuoka
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops. — John Muir
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones. — Charlotte Bronte
I will be generous with my love today. I will sprinkle compliments and uplifting words everywhere I go. I will do this knowing that my words are like seeds and when they fall on fertile soil, a reflection of those seeds will grow into something greater. — Steve Maraboli
Data is the new soil, because for me, it feels like a fertile, creative medium. Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments. — David McCandless
This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius. — Henryk Sienkiewicz
Truth has to fall on fertile soil. — Paula D'Arcy
Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize. — Ambrose Bierce
The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. — Sir Joshua Reynolds
Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man. — Ellsworth Huntington
A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists. — Gustav Stresemann
It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile. — Nicolas Chamfort
Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it. — Walter Darby Bannard
Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty. — Walter Darby Bannard
The fate of the soil system depends on society's willingness to intervene in the market place, and to forego some of the short-term benefits that accrue from 'mining' the soil so that soil quality and fertility can be maintained over the longer term. — Eugene Odum
The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men. — John Muir
It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige. — George Matthew Adams
Till your mental soil with determination. Fertilize your emotional soil with positive words. And plant the seed of your heart's desire with your disciplined efforts. — Iyanla Vanzant
If you throw seeds on concrete, they won't grow. They have to meet fertile soil. So it is with germs. Even if they do get into your body, unless it is nice and acidic, they can't grow and multiply and make you sick - or kill you. — Robert O. Young
There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place. — Francis Bacon
Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between brazen clasps, whose contents it needs only patience to ransack; it is not a mine, whose treasures may take long to reduce into possession, but which fill only a limited number of veins and lodes; it is not a soil, whose fertility can be exhausted by the yield of successive harvests; it is not a continent or an ocean, whose area can be mapped out and its contour defined: it is limitless as that space which it finds too narrow for its aspirations; its possibilities are as infinite as the worlds which are forever crowding in and multiplying upon the astronomer's gaze. — James Joseph Sylvester
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. — Charlotte Bronte
In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable. — Primo Levi
All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people. — Alvar N. C. de Vaca
When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is confirmed in its pantheism. — Dag Hammarskjold
Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation. — Abraham Lincoln
All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people. — Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
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