Fertile Quotes

188 Fertile quotes by 170 unique authors

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism. — Robert D. Kaplan
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… — Henri Nouwen
I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that… — Abraham Lincoln
Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix… — Octave Mirbeau
Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief. . . . As it prods… — Janet Lembke
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
The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are… — Henry Ward Beecher
It was not the visible sun, but its invisible Creator who consecrated this day for us, when the Virgin Mother, fertile of womb and integral… — Saint Augustine
This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but… — Henryk Sienkiewicz
The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
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

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