Jacques Cartier Quotes

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.

Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey.

Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.

The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood.

Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

All soils are not fertile.

Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.

The country has been of better character since leaving the Buttes than E. of them, but has now a very fertile appearance. This may be said to begin about the 3rd crossing of Milk R of the line.

The land is excellent and agreeable, full of noble forest trees and grapevines, and nothing is wanted here but the labor and industry to render it one of the finest and most fruitful lands …

The great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies.

With 10 per cent of Nigeria's total land mass, 80 per cent of which is arable, Niger state symbolises the hope and greatness of Nigeria and has potential to feed the continent.

A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us; His dew falls everywhere.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.

Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

Man begets, but land does not beget.

I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess I just naturally like ‘the good Earth,’ the foundation of all our wealth.

That dark laboratory we call the soil.

The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

I know that wine is, above all else, a blessing, a gift of nature, a joy as pure and elemental as the soil and vines and sunshine from which it springs.