The rotation of crops keeps the soil healthy and fertile.
Burns keep the grassland fertile and prevent woody plants from encroaching on the savanna.
But the radical reassessment of its importance shows how ancient fossils remain a fertile field for new thinking.
The most terrible thing is gossip, but the heart is the fertile soil. Once the seed of gossip is sown, it will grow and spread quickly.
Four horned cows stand side by side upon fertile land. And indeed they've been grazing on their little patch of grass for about five and a half thousand years.
And they took their fortified cities And a fertile land, And took possession of their houses, Full of every good thing, Hewn cisterns, vineyards, and olive groves, And fruit trees in abundance; And they ate and were satisfied and grew fat, And they delighted in Your great goodness.
The desert continually encroaches on the fertile land.
As a gall matures, a small pore opens, enabling fertile aphids to emerge and disperse-and predators to enter.
We don't know what caused this disaster. But the radical reassessment of its importance shows how ancient fossils remain a fertile field for new thinking.
In addition to property damage, the floods have affected some of the nation's most fertile cropland, and are expected to have an impact on already rising food prices, especially for crops like corn.
Anything grows in this fertile ground.
He says that he wishes he could afford some steak, but it is better than leaving fertile ground untended.
It is its capacity to hold error rather than scuttle it that makes the distributed being fertile ground for learning, adaptation, and evolution.
On rocky hillsides there are wooden huts and in wooded valleys, towns of brick. Arid uplands are irrigated and planted with leafy gardens, whereas, on fertile plains, the parks are paved with stone.
Presumably, both economies would have fertile soil, agronomists, refrigerated packing plants and ports.
Travelling on the Ningxia Plains, one sees everywhere canals and weeping willows surrounding the homesteads, like the fertile plains lying south of the Yangtse River.
They drain the swamp and turn it into fertile land.
Around the year 59 BC, Julius Caesar established a settlement for his veteran troops in the fertile river valley of the Arno.
Vast tracts of fertile farmland now lie fallow; agricultural output has slumped.
Life should be the same as these flowers, whether growing in poor land, or fertile farmland, should absorb nutrients in the wind and rain, in the bright smile in the sun.
First I saw the fertile grasslands unfurl before me, populous by Mongolian standards, with sometimes as many as half a dozen gers in view at a time, and with large herds of animals grazing nearby.
The plants luxuriated in the fertile soil.
The female has reached a fertile age. The zoo is hoping that the male will fertilize her.
The prairie vole, which is monogamous, bonds with one female for life, even if he's presented with other, fertile females.
