The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgement of his own works. On that which has cost him much labour he sets a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Where on the globe can there be found an area of equal extent with that occupied by the bulk of our States,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There was a transition going on - Baghdad being the intellectual capital of the world where major advances were made in agriculture… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
A three billion year old planet floating in the vast universe with mountains, seventy percent seas and oceans, fertile lands, immense forests,… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers created the 'Fertile Crescent' where some of the first civilizations emerged. Today they are immensely important resources,… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I fell in love with my country - its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. No one can take my love… — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Copy Share Image
We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle… — Edward Burnett Tylor Copy Share Image
Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical… — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The imagination is fertile. From seeds of the imagination, much is made manifest. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
