Katie Melua

I love fruit. One of my earliest memories is climbing trees for figs, and I once got stuck in one when I was six. I could see the biggest, juiciest fig and I climbed up and got it and ate it right there, sitting on a branch. Then I realised I couldn't get down.

Georgian Musician

Munira Mirza

Too many developers still treat cultural strategies as a fig leaf to get planning permission, rather than make a thoughtful, genuine commitment to the cultural life of their areas.

British Public Servant

Edwin Louis Cole

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.

American Author

Bethany McLean

Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.

American Editor

Yotam Ottolenghi

I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.

Israeli Chef

George F. Kennan

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

American Historian

Paracelsus

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

Swiss Scientist

Saul Bellow

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.

American Novelist

Brigitte Bardot

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

French Actress

Menander

Greek Poet

Figs can be eaten fresh or dried, with the texture and sweetness varying.

Multiple Forms

Figs add natural sweetness to many dishes, from salads to desserts.

Versatile Ingredient

Figs are symbolic in many cultures and religions, often representing fertility and peace.

Cultural Importance

Fig trees have broad leaves, which are famous for covering Adam and Eve in the Bible.

Unique Appearance

Fig trees need warm climates to produce fruit and don't tolerate cold temperatures.

Growing Conditions

Figs in baking give a unique, sweet flavor often paired with nuts and spices.

Dessert Flavoring

Using 'fig' to mean clothing is rare and usually found in historical or literary works.

Literary Rarity

The dress-related meaning of 'fig' is outdated and might confuse modern readers.

Archaic Expression

'Give a fig' is an informal way to express indifference or lack of interest.

Colloquial Idiom

Saying 'don't give a fig' implies a strong level of disinterest or disregard.

Disinterest Intensity

 food sources and that's a lesson that can be applied directly to human beings there's part of that that they exist in humanity when we're at our worst not far away the neighbors are feeding in the fig tree oblivious to the approaching danger I think you'll agree a pretty awesome

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 afraid of you while you build your blind so you have to calculate them building it a few weeks before the fruits are ready to eat and then then it might work might and then you can wait for three and a half weeks to get a picture of a rhinoceros hornbill with a fig fruit in

Borneo: Paradise Under...

 because they start life at the top of the tree a fig bird poops out a seed on another tree and they grow their roots down these are new roots that are looking for soil and when they hit the soil then they'll grow into something like this so this is a baby version baby

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 with figs and everything else. He felt like they felt manipulated. So he got rid of the electricity, he got rid of current on the inside and kept it on the outside, so it would protect them against coyotes and other predators. Now, what happened?

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 trees are conceptualized as torsos being buried in the soil so with that idea the great fig leafy part of the tree is the head that is the same word for head and Dothraki is used for that leafy part of the tree which means of course that the

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 stewed turn-of-the-century Turkish figs for breakfast. The rest of the collection remains here, stored in plain brown paper bags until funds can be raised to build a permanent museum

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 unfamiliar chimp call raises the tension it's an uncertain time the size of the rival group is as yet unknown not far away their neighbors are feeding in a fig

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 we've teamed up with expert local trackers who are taking us deep into the forest one of our guide reckons there's a tree down here a fig tree that's in

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 chimp call raises the tension it's an uncertain time the size of the rival group is as yet unknown not far away their neighbors are feeding in the fig

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 “From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked… but choosing one meant losing all the rest,