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1 " All life depends upon the opportunistic interplay between elemental forces, the mysterious dualities of the numinous universe. Ying and yang forces of the natural world (lightness and darkness, fire and water, expansion and contraction) create tangible dualities that are complementary, interconnected, and independent. Without the firmament in the midst of the waters, without both sunshine and water, no life forms could subsist on this rocky orb. Without the rich soil surrounded by a canopy of an illimitable sky how could we feed ourselves, how could we breathe? "
― , Dead Toad Scrolls
2 " Up goes the rocket. Its golden grain falls, fertilising, upon the rich soil of my imagination. "
― Virginia Woolf , The Waves
3 " This is the greatest mystery of the human mind--the inductive leap. Everything falls into place, irrelevancies relate, dissonance becomes harmony, and nonsense wears a crown of meaning. But the clarifying leap springs from the rich soil of confusion, and the leaper is not unfamiliar with pain. "
― John Steinbeck , Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
4 " Their love was thus seeded in the rich soil of mutual understanding. "
― Jacqueline Winspear , The Care and Management of Lies
5 " A species to consider the rich soil to be poor than the refined Gold, Humans "
6 " Talk uses up ideas. ... Once I have spoken them aloud they are lost to me dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them like bulbs in the rich soil of silence do they grow. "
