Sam Taylor-Johnson

The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.

English Director

Patti Smith

I get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governments and with corporations, but in terms of imagination - my imagination is always fertile. I'm either thinking of my own things or constantly engaged by the things that other people do.

American Musician

Sarah Cooper

In the corporate world, there is no ground more fertile for appearing smart than the rich earth that is electronic communication. Your email writing, sending and ignoring skills are just as important as your nodding skills, and even more important than your copying and pasting skills.

Jamaican Comedian

Abigail Spencer

What happened with 'Mad Men' was I had just had my child, I was in a very literally and creatively fertile time in my life, and I wasn't leaving the house much. So when 'Mad Men' came along, I was so excited to leave the house. Like, I get to go do this beautiful thing.

American Actress

Ravish Kumar

It is common knowledge that social media today is fertile ground for trampling all over the decency of language. This is done not just by members of your party and your supporters but also those from the opposition. And their numbers are increasing every day.

Jenny Han

My whole life, as an adult as well, I've been attracted to stories about young people. This period of time is so fertile - there's a million things that are happening, a million firsts, and to be able to witness that and record that is a privilege.

South Korean Author

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

India is a fertile ground for entrepreneurs, given its large pool of world-class talent and resources. India's ability to generate wealth and create social good will come if we let entrepreneurs flourish by encouraging and enabling innovation.

Indian Businesswoman

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Gray space is fertile ground for fiction. When I can see both sides of an argument and feel strongly in both directions, then there's a story there, then I can write real characters that I care about and believe in and champion on both sides.

American Writer

Lee R. Raymond

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

American Businessman

Montesquieu

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

French Philosopher

Refers to the natural ability of living beings - humans, animals, to reproduce.

Biological Potential

'Fertile' is the opposite of 'sterile', which means not able to produce offspring.

Not Sterility

The term can be sensitive when referring to people; use with care to avoid offense.

Cultural Sensitivity

Highlights the quality of soil or land that is good for plants; implies richness in nutrients.

Agricultural Quality

Just as 'fertile' implies richness, 'barren' is often used to describe poor, unproductive land.

Not Barren

Can be used metaphorically to talk about places full of productive activity or opportunities.

Figurative Use

Describes someone's mind or ideas as being imaginative and original.

Creativity Indicator

Indicates the ability to create or invent; goes beyond usual thinking patterns.

Inventive Use

 can be traced back to a much smaller number. So how did we end up with so many? In the early days of human migration, the world was much less populated. Groups of people that shared a single language and culture often split into smaller tribes, going separate ways in search of fresh game and fertile land.

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 And of course the local people had absolutely no interest in doing that, so we paid them to come and work, and sometimes they would show up. And we were amazed that the local people, in such a fertile valley, would not have any agriculture. But instead of asking them how come they were not

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 to the lava that followed many of Hawaii's worst earthquakes. The lava on Hawaii is made of basalt, which once cooled, is highly fertile. Within a couple of decades of terrible eruptions, Islanders would have seen vibrant green life thriving on new peninsulas made of lava.

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 a huge amount of information data we irrigated with networks and connectivity and it's been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments and all right kind of milking the metaphor a little bit but it's a really fertile medium and

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 it's well positioned it's one of the most beautifully fertile areas in the world right and yet there's still food deserts within eyesight of the Hollywood sign we're talking about mothers poor families that have to get on two to

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 the fields would never be fertile again, and the distinction between the Earth and the underworld would soon dissolve. So, they made a pact. For two thirds of every year, Persephone would return to the land of the living,

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 the fertile queens and their drones depart in a massive swarm. As the days grow colder, the workers starve, and our queen reaches the end of her lifespan. But above, a swarm of reproductive wasps has successfully mated.

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 while volcanoes are some of the most destructive forces of nature they have also helped make life on earth possible volcanic ash provides nutrients to nearby soil making the land fertile

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 recycling minerals from deep within the earth's crust they nourish our land with ash creating some of the most fertile plains on earth

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 Reaching eventually a large male. He has his own need to reproduce. And he also knows that females don't stay fertile forever.