Kathi Appelt

I have always been interested in abandoned cars. I can't tell you how many times I've been in a car, driving, and there's a car sitting in a pasture, totally abandoned. Or on the edge of a creek or something. I always wonder: why did somebody park it in the pasture and leave?

American Writer

Erika Jayne

Housewives' has shone a light on women of middle age, that you're not out of the game, you're not old, you're not put out to pasture... You're lively, you're doing things, you're aggressive, you're making money, you're recreating yourself.

American Actress

Rosanna Arquette

I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.

Jane Smiley

All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.

Pope John XXIII

Christ's flock is made up of sheep that not only listen to their shepherd, but are also able to recognize his voice, to follow him, faithfully and with full awareness, on the pastures of eternal life.

Italian Clergyman

John Rampton

If your manager is one that isn't engaged with your career development by offering frequent advice and guidance, it's time to look for greener pastures.

American Businessman

Holly Hunter

It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody.

Ravi Subramanian

There is some confusion in my mind whether to continue to write on banking or try newer pastures.

Indian Author

Elizabeth McGovern

I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.

George Eliot

British Author

Pasture refers to land with grass where farm animals graze, not wild animals.

Animal Habitat

While pastures can be enclosed, they can also be open lands without fences.

Not Always Fenced

'Pasture' is often used in farming and rural contexts, rather than urban settings.

Agriculture Term

'Greener pastures' is a metaphor meaning better opportunities, often used to talk about job changes.

Metaphoric Usage

Seeking greener pastures express the hope of finding better conditions or happiness.

Expression of Hope

The metaphorical 'greener pastures' doesn't apply to situations that are already positive.

Avoid Inappropriate Use

To pasture animals is to allow them to feed freely on the land, a common practice in animal husbandry.

Farming Practice

Animals may be pastured only during certain seasons when the grass is plentiful.

Seasonal Activity

While 'pasture' usually implies open fields, animals can be pastured in varied landscapes.

Land Type

 This is one of the world's largest terrestrial carbon sinks, processing millions of carbon every single year. What you see here is a single road over a 30-year period. On either side you see land being cleared for pasture, for cattle, but also for soy and sugar production. You're seeing deforestation on a massive scale.

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 The second area, in brown, is the world's pastures and rangelands, where our animals live. That area's about 30 million square kilometers, or about an Africa's worth of land, a huge amount of land, and it's the best land, of course, is what you see. And what's left is, like,

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 there won't be any nature left for our children when they're adults. But there's a fix for this. So let me explain. Right now, humans use half of the world to live, to grow their crops and their timber, to pasture their animals. If you added up all the human beings,

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 a relentless advance that transforms pastures and farms into barren wastelands. These are desert locusts— infamous among their locust cousins for their massive swarms and capacity for destruction. But these insects aren't always so insatiable.

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 shooting birds through a combination of cutting grazing and burning large parts of our national parks are agricultural lands supporting the people livelihoods and cultures that maintain the landscape our final 24 seconds is through pastures

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 was three of them that we did not get to the point where we felt comfortable taking them on the trip um and they're living on pasture now living a good life but we started the journey um uh this is

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 channels floodplains lagoons and thousands upon thousands of islands here you can find the abundance of life all around you the annual flood from Angola creates these rich pastures in the Mambo

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 ice-free land on the planet is taken over by agriculture worldwide pastures take up twelve point nine million square miles twice as much as cropland it's