Quotes About Cultivation

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Our imagination is the most important faculty we possess. It can be our greatest resource or our most formidable adversary. It is through our imagination that we discern possibilities and options. Yet imagination is no mere blank slate on which we simply inscribe our will. Rather, imagination is the deepest voice of the soul and can be heard clearly only through cultivation and careful attention. A relationship with our imagination is a relationship with our deepest self.

The cultivation of those sciences which have enlarged the limits of the empire of man over the external world, has, for want of poetical faculty, proportionally circumscribed those of the internal world; and man, having enslaved the elements, remains himself a slave.

The cultivation of poetry is never more to be desired than at periods when, from an excess of the selfish and calculating principle, the accumulation of the materials of external life exceed the quantity of the power of assimilating them to the internal laws of human nature. The

Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.

You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth.

You cleared the ground for it, and it took root and filled the land.

He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:

I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines—

Cultivate your land like the Nile, O Daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer a harbor.

When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots, and rye within its border.

But the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave in its own land, to cultivate it and reside in it, declares the LORD.”

The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through.

The workers of the city who cultivate it will come from all the tribes of Israel.

ëSir,í the man replied, ëleave it alone again this year, until I dig around it and fertilize it.