Always cherish fertile soil.

Our bodies are garbage heaps: we collect experience, and from the decomposition of the thrown-out eggshells, spinach leaves, coffee grinds, and old steak bones…

— Natalie Goldberg

I'm amazed at how much my writing is improved when I step away from the computer, even in small amounts. If I'm stuck, I…

— Donald Miller

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower…

— Ellsworth Huntington

Truth has to fall on fertile soil.

— Paula D'Arcy

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God's Word.

— Billy Graham

There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will have its…

— Henry Ward Beecher

When you assess your own life, consider it with the eye of a gardener. Underneath the surface lies rich, fertile soil waiting to nurture…

— Steve Goodier

Who can justly measure the righteous influence of a mother's love? What enduring fruits result from the seeds of truth that a mother carefully…

— Richard G. Scott

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

Humility is a fertile soil where spirituality grows and produces the fruit of inspiration to know what to do. It gives access to divine…

— Richard G. Scott

A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection.

— Elias Hasket Derby

You grow great crops in great soil. And the soil is the commons. Increasingly, we have monopolistic companies that try to take as much…

— Tim O'Reilly

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

— David Hume

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

— Ellen Glasgow

If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has…

— David Hume