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Quotes About Fertility

Vogt and Osborn were also the first to bring to a wide public a belief that would become a foundation of environmental thought: consumption driven by capitalism and rising human numbers is the ultimate cause of most of the world's ecological problems, and only dramatic reductions in human fertility and economic activity will prevent a worldwide calamity.
~ Charles C. Mann
The key to terra preta's long-term fertility, Glaser says, is charcoal: terra preta contains up to sixty-four times more of it than surrounding red earth.
~ Charles C. Mann
On peut démontrer ainsi ni la stérilité ni la fécondité ne fournissent aucune distinction certaines entre les espèces et les variétés.
~ Charles Darwin
I was conceived after doctors told my mother she'd never have children. I'm a miracle - we all are.
~ Jill Scott
I want women to understand that the most beautiful thing a woman's body does is to grow other human beings.
~ Abby Johnson
I wanted to talk to a lot of women about their experiences along the path to motherhood - or along the path to not being a mother.
~ Sheila Heti
Motherhood is something that everyone should experience and I didn't want to be left behind.
~ Mandira Bedi
Women are tough and rather coarse. They were built for the raw, crude work of bearing children. You'd be amazed at what they can do when they divert that baby-hatching energy into some other enterprise.
~ Tom Robbins
A woman's preovulatory waking temps typically range from about 97.0 to 97.7 degrees Fahrenheit, with postovulatory temps rising to about 97.8 and higher. After ovulation, they will usually stay elevated until her next period, about 12 to 16 days later.
~ Toni Weschler
three primary fertility signs are cervical fluid, waking temperature, and cervical position (this last one being an additional sign that simply corroborates the first two).
~ Toni Weschler
the first Goddess, Gaia, who was the earth, wide hipped, big bellied, the womb of the human race, the nurturing breast of all humans, the opulent and voracious beginning of all things female.
~ Kerry Greenwood
Lif and Lifthrasir will have children. Their children will have children. There will be life and new life, life everywhere on earth. That was the end; and this is the beginning.
~ Kevin Crossley-Holland
There are gods of fertility, corn, childbirth, & police brutality--this last is offered praise & sacrifice near weekly & still cannot be sated
~ Kevin Young
I'd known friends who went through this, the grim tracking of the ovulation cycle, the way making love becomes insemination, as romantic as a turkey baster. One of my college friends, in fact, had said she preferred the turkey baster. "I don't have to pretend that way,
~ Kristan Higgins
He laughed and my ovaries frothed with eggs.
~ Kristan Higgins
In the fighting that we do, one time we fight over the wheat and all the other grains, another time over the livestock, and at other times over the vineyards. And so, on four occasions we fight over all the fruits of the earth and for those things won by the benandanti that year there is abundance.' Thus, at the core of the nocturnal gatherings of the benandanti we see a fertility rite emerging that is precisely patterned on the principal events of the agricultural year.
~ Carlo Ginzburg
Como é bom ter terras para plantar! Eu já estava compreendendo o valor da terra que sabe recompensar o esforço do homem. E o ventre da terra é fecundo. A terra é feminina, é a mãe da humanidade.
~ Carolina Maria de Jesus
Could it be that the great Bonaparte is incapable of fathering a child? that it is not I who am at fault but you?
~ Carolly Erickson
Someone's summered in my stomach, Someone's fallen through my legs, To make an infant omelet, Simply scramble sperm and eggs.
~ Carrie Fisher
Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.
~ George Sand
It's funny, because I sometimes feel that I'm most creative when I'm pregnant.
~ Georgina Chapman
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
~ T. S. Eliot
The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for Nature to follow. Now we just set the clock an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.
~ E. B. White
Australia is so kind that, just tickle her with a hoe, and she laughs with a harvest.
~ Douglas Jerrold