Fertile Quotes

188 quotes by 170 authors

To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind… — Joseph Wood Krutch
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… — Henry David Thoreau
YOUR HEART IS FULL of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout. Just as a lotus flower springs from the mire to bloom splendidly, the interaction of… — Morihei Ueshiba
The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so… — Ogden Nash
A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen. — Henry David Thoreau
We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it. — Cynthia Weil
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… — Richard Dawkins
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… — Vernon Howard
Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If you contemplate these… — Polly Young-Eisendrath
A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists. — Gustav Stresemann
Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is as barbaric and… — Theodore Dalrymple
Every single choice we make, no matter how small, is the ground where who we are meets what is in the world. And the fruits… — Wayne Muller
When we heal ourselves, others are healed. When we nurture our dreams, we give birth to the dreams of humankind. When we walk as loving… — Jamie Sams
We found water. We passed into a more fertile country where were grass and fruit. We found the trail to Babylon because the soul of… — George S. Clason
The world is like a fertile field that's waiting to be harvested. The seeds have been planted, and what I do is go out and… — Edwin Land
Each new generation asks â€“ What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be â€“ Why does man… — Peter Wessel Zapffe
Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces of humankind. What… — David Gemmell
If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river… — Laozi
To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the… — Samuel Johnson
Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue - just as fertile… — John Climacus

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