Best Fertile Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays

“I know it is possible not only to restore trust but to actually enhance it. The difficult things that we got through with the important people in our lives can become fertile ground for the growth of enduring trust - trust that is actually stronger because it's been tested and proved through challenge.”

People Knows Important Motivational Difficult Growth Challenges Our Lives Stronger Endure Tested Difficult Things Fertile Fertile Ground People In Our Lives

Author:Stephen Covey

“The shadow is not a problem to be solved or an enemy to be conquered, but a fertile field to be cultivated. When we dig our hands into its rich soil we will discover the potent seeds of the people we most desire to be.”

People Problem Hands Desire Enemy Rich Fields Shadow Seeds Soil Fertile

Book:The Shadow Effect: Illuminating the Hidden Power of Your True Self

Source: The Shadow Effect: Illuminating the Hidden Power of Your True Self

“Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.”

People Land Prophet Britain Tyrants Ireland Moses Fertile

Author:St. Jerome

“The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.”

Want Grows Work Produce Fertile

Book:Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry

Source: Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry

“The inspiration for my work comes from areas spanning the stark regions of Newfoundland to the lush and fertile valleys of the South. The landscapes offer me form; the people I've met in these places give them color.”

People Giving Inspiration Form Color Mets Offers Areas South Landscape Regions Valleys Starks Fertile Lush

Author:Peter Sculthorpe

“There are some good things and some fantastic ones in Auden's early attitude; if the reader calls it a muddle I shall acquiesce, with the remark that the later position might be considered a more rarefied muddle. But poets rather specialize in muddles and I have no doubt which of the muddles was better for Auden's poetry: one was fertile and usable, the other decidedly is not. Auden sometimes seems to be saying with Henry Clay, "I had rather be right than poetry"; but I am not sure, then, that he is either.”

Ifs Sometimes Seems Might Attitude Doubt Position Poet Reader Good Things Fantastic Not Sure No Doubt Clay Remarks Fertile Muddle Auden

Author:Randall Jarrell

“It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up, always speaking but never saying anything rational, always playing at being abstract but never leaving the clotted body.”

Play Body Numbers Paint Leaving Rational Abstract Compelling Counting Fertile Hallucinations

Book:What Painting Is

Source: What Painting Is

“While about one-third of Americans believe in ghosts, you won't find many exhibits on these spooky beings down at the local science museum. Why? Well, one explanation that you might consider, ghosts are just figments of our highly fertile imaginations!”

Believe Wells Might Imagination Thirds Ghost Locals Explanation Museums Exhibits Fertile Spooky Figments

Author:Seth Shostak

“The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.”

Source Insight Fertile Hindsight

Book:Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty

Source: Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty

“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.”

Source: Philosophical Essays: On Morals, Literature, and Politics

“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.”

Ifs Wells Different Play Shows Form Stars Accepting Rocks Creating Draws Stones Bother Rock N Roll Unfortunate Rolling Fertile Rolling Stones Hybrid Zeppelins Discs Fertile Ground

Author:David Lee Roth

“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.”

World Writing Real Fields Horror Metaphor Novelists Plus Real World Mainstream Fertile

Author:Bentley Little

“Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs.”

Reason Mother Intuition Fertile Blunders

Author:Arthur Alfred Lynch

“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.”

Source: 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 ...

“Louisville is a place with no labels. It’s not the South, it’s not Chicago, and you don’t think of it as you think of New York or LA. It has some Southern romanticism to it, but also a Northern progressivism, this weird urban island in the middle of the state of Kentucky that has always provided a fertile, often dark, bed. For us, Louisville and the surrounding areas are the center of massive creativity and massive weirdness. The place has its flaws: You move away, but you’re always going to come back.”

Thinking States Moving Dark Creativity Middle New York Bed Areas South Labels Islands Massive Flaws Chicago Southern Urban Romanticism Fertile Weirdness Kentucky Progressivism Louisville

Author:Jim James

“After a certain age our memories are so intertwined with one another that what we are thinking of, the book we are reading, scarcely matters any more. We have put something of ourselves everywhere, everything is fertile, everything is dangerous, and we can make discoveries no less precious than in Pascal's Pensées in an advertisement for soap.”

Thinking Book Matter Age Certain Reading Memories Dangerous Discovery Pens Soap Our Memories Fertile Advertisements Intertwined Pascal

Book:The captive, The fugitive

Source: The captive, The fugitive

“When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.”

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“All soils are not fertile.”

Soil Fertile

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left off, do not expect that son to be what you were, - diligent, modest, active, simple in his tastes, fertile in resources. You have put him under quite a different master. Poverty educated you; wealth will educate him. You cannot suppose the result will be the same.”

Source: Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose

“The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.”

Spring Acquaintance Fertile New Acquaintances

Book:The Early diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778: with a selection from her correspondence, and from the journals of her sisters Susan and Charlotte Burney

Source: The Early diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778: with a selection from her correspondence, and from the journals of her sisters Susan and Charlotte Burney

“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.”