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fertilizing

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of Fertilize

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One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. Evelyn Waugh

MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants. Ambrose Bierce

When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is confirmed in its pantheism. Dag Hammarskjöld

To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had a fertilizing quality and her imagination was strong. There was at this time, however, a want of lightness in her situation, which the arrival of an unexpected visitor did much to dispel. Henry James

Love, children, and work are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world. Bertrand Russell

If you continually harvest without fertilizing the land will soon be exhausted and you'll have bad years. Sicilian Proverb

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