Barren Quote by Ernest Thompson Seton

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence…

— Joyce Cary

“Why do deprivation, adversity, scarcity, and suffering often produce the best character qualities in us while prosperity, ease, and abundance often produce the worst?…

— Bianca Olthoff

“Growth of the soil was something different, a thing to be procured at any cost; the only source, the origin of all. A dull…

— Knut Hamsun

[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in…

— Edward Gibbon

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an exraordinary destiny.

— Akshay Shome

We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking…

— Ansel Adams

Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of…

— Andy Partridge

“Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown…

— Alain de Botton

Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money.…

— Faith Sullivan

In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having…

— Peter Garrett

“To augment their misery, a contagious disorder of a dangerous nature spread through the land; and, rendered more virulent by the uncleanness, the indifferent…

— Walter Scott