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Fallow Quotes: Rest, Land, and Renewal

Rest before new growth

These fallow quotes look at how farmers across the Country let land rest each winter, and how that same idea of quiet, unused time applies to creative work.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Loss
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Nov 07, 2020

The winter period between September and March in this country, when land sits fallow and is subject to topsoil loss, we could be enriching the soil and growing all the biomass we need to replace imported gasoline.

Quotes by Vinod Khosla

Nov 07, 2020

Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.

Quotes by Robert Grosseteste

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.

Quotes by Ralph Fiennes

Empires
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Nov 07, 2020

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

Quotes by John Lothrop Motley

Period
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Nov 07, 2020

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

Quotes by Felicity Kendal

Need
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Nov 07, 2020

Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.

Quotes by Cheech Marin

Others recall how an exhausted Culture can lie fallow for a season before renewing itself, a reminder that fallow periods often precede fresh growth.

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