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• 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 of calculation

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Animal, Men, Delay

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1821). “Queen Mab, a philosophical poem, with notes. [reputed to have been given by the author to W. Francis. Wanting the title-leaf, dedication and part of the last leaf].”, p.173

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• This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Achievement, Doe, Genius

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (2013). “Henryk Sienkiewicz: Three Stories”, p.7, Wildside Press LLC

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• 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 in her virginity, brought him forth, made visible for us, by whom, when he was invisible, she too was created. A Virgin conceiving, a Virgin bearing, a Virgin pregnant, a Virgin bringing forth, a Virgin perpetual. Why do you wonder at this, O man?

  Saint Augustine

  Mother, Men, Sun

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• Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prarie, it concerns us to attend to the nature of fishes, since they are not phenomena confined to certain localities only, but forms and phases of the life in nature universally dispersed. The countless shoals which annually coast the shores of Europe and America are not so interesting to the student of nature as the more fertile law itselffrom which it results that they may be found in water in so many places, in greater or lesser numbers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Lakes, Europe And America

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.18, Xist Publishing

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• If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has been generous and liberal, know that she still expects industry and application on our part, and revenges herself in proportion to our negligent ingratitude. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to its slothful owner, the most abundant crop of poisons.

  David Hume

  Weed, Art, Revenge

  David Hume (1817). “Philosophical Essays: On Morals, Literature, and Politics”, p.166

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• It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Passion, Past, Men

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• 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

  Believe, Home, Keep Believing

  Maria Rodale (2010). “Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe”, p.93, Rodale

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• When you assess your own life, consider it with the eye of a gardener. Underneath the surface lies rich, fertile soil waiting to nurture the seeds you sow. Even more than you can imagine will grow there if given a chance.

  Steve Goodier

  Lying, Eye, Waiting

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• If we were a culture of high-risk alcoholics, and suddenly we had Jack Daniels piped into our houses, we would be feeding that fire. Social networking, and the internet as a whole, seems to have simply landed in an extremely fertile place in an extremely fertile time in history, when we all have these narcissistic tendencies anyway - you can go further back into the self-esteem movement, and Dr. Spock, and the 'everybody gets a ribbon at the track meet' sort of thing, which preceded the internet - and then you drop the internet into the middle of this, and we've all gone haywire.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Self Esteem, Fire, Track

  Source: www.dinnerpartydownload.org

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• When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.

  Allen West

  United States, Tyranny, States

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• Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Inspirational, Life, Heart

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.39, Shambhala Publications

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• Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Mars, Dry, Earth

  Interview with Don Cohen, appel.nasa.gov. June 1, 2008.

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• Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

  Pete Townshend

  Class, People, Hypocrisy

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• Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

  Ben Stein

  Life, Motivational, Relationship

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• The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Important, Fiction, Stories

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• The imagination is fertile. From seeds of the imagination, much is made manifest.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Imagination, Made, Manifest

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• Zen, on the other hand, is not so dogmatically sterile, though there are certainly traces and more than traces of this austerity. However, with Zen we have not only the void, but the fertile void. The ink lines in a sumi-e painting show this fertility of the void ever ready to brim over into existence.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Hands, Lines, Austerity

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

  Morgan Parker

  Art, Political, Looks

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing but live and walk about -- came to know all things, to carry in their minds the whole of learning; would you not think I was romancing? Well, just this, which seems so fanciful as to be nothing but the invention of a fertile imagination, is a reality. It is the child's way of learning.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, School

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• Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

  George Sand

  Flower, Butterfly, Feelings

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• Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Terrorism, States, Dishes

  Interview with Katie Bacon, www.theatlantic.com. November 02, 2001.

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• It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had more calories to burn, and thus more energy and endurance, but since fat stores estrogen, she would have remained fertile for longer.

  Helen Fisher

  Men, Wife, Endurance

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• Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue - just as fertile soul quickly becomes dry and arid and produces nothing but thorns and thistles if it is not cultivated.

  John Climacus

  Attachment, Soul, Dry

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• The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.

  Morris Kline

  Hindsight, Source, Insight

  Morris Kline (1982). “Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty”, p.101, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are learning in the classroom. It enables them to apply academic disciplines to practical, everyday problems. In the process, it provides a compelling answer to the adolescent's perennial question, 'Why do I need to learn this stuff?

  Colin Powell

  Helping Others, Everyday Problems, Ties

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