Fertile Quotes - Page 11

• I fell in love with my country - its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. No one can take my love of country away from me! I felt then, as I do now, it's a rich, fertile, beautiful land, capable of satisfying all the needs of its people. It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class.

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

  Beautiful, Country, Falling In Love

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1973). “The Rebel Girl: an autobiography, my first life (1906-1926).”

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• Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

  Tami Hoag

  Family, Mind, Bacteria

  Tami Hoag (2003). “Ashes to Ashes: A Novel”, p.71, Bantam

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• A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection.

  Elias Hasket Derby

  Agriculture, Perfection, Doe

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• I will only ever be drawn to people who suffer from that special and fertile anguish called self-doubt, or the thirst for the ideal, and desire for the soul's mystical fire. Self-satisfaction because of some material accomplishment will never be for me. The truly great are those who quest for better spiritual selves.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Spiritual, Fire, Self

  Isabelle Eberhardt (2003). “The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

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• God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Disappointment, Frost

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life?

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Men, Meaning Of Life, Doe

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).

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• Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgement of his own works. On that which has cost him much labour he sets a high value, because he is unwilling to think that he has been diligent in vain: what has been produced without toilsome efforts is considered with delight as a proof of vigorous faculties and fertile invention; and the last work, whatever it be, has necessarily most of the grace of novelty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Thinking, Effort

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.136

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• Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable.

  Bentley Little

  Real, Writing, Novelists

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• You can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid forms of music and hybrid forms of show, if you draw from many, many different wells. It's just unfortunate so many rock'n'roll stars only bother to learn how to play like Led Zeppelin and/or the Rolling Stones and that's what you get, disc after disc and show after show.

  David Lee Roth

  Stars, Rocks, Play

  "David Lee Roth: Outrageous or normal?". Patrick McDonald, The Advertiser, October 13, 1988.

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• 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 has been able to discover or comprehend.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, Mean, Mind

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• 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 morning ones, and there is dew on the grass, and the day is forever unproved, where I might have a fertile unknown for a soil about me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Nature, Feet

  Henry David Thoreau, Ronald A. Bosco (2005). “Nature's Panorama: Thoreau on the Seasons”, p.28, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. . . . It is more important to pave the way for a child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts that he is not ready to assimilate.

  Rachel Carson

  Children, Garden, Important

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• 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 the cosmic breath causes the flower of the spirit to bloom and bear fruit in this world.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Spring, Flower, Heart

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.40, Shambhala Publications

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