It is the blankness that follows gaiety, and Everyman must depart Out there into stranded night, for his destiny... Is to return unfruitful out of the lightness That passing time evokes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The northern sky rose high and black Over the proud unfruitful sea,... East and west the ships came back Happily or unhappily....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more c...learly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and... goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that three-quarters free and communicates self-confidence and mutual cheerful agreeableness to those who know they are subject to its law.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In ...place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though there were numerous vessels at this great distance in the horizon on every side, yet the vast spaces between them, like the... spaces between the stars,--far as they were distant from us, so were they from one another,--nay, some were twice as far from each other as from us,--impressed us with a sense of the immensity of the ocean, the "unfruitful ocean," as it has been called, and we could see what proportion man and his works bear to the globe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Greeks would not have called the ocean atrugetos, or unfruitful, though it does not produce wheat, if they had viewed it by th...e light of modern science, for naturalists now assert that "the sea, and not the land, is the principal seat of life,"Mthough not of vegetable life.... The dry land itself came through and out of the water in its way to the heavens, for, "in going back through the geological ages, we come to an epoch when, according to all appearances, the dry land did not exist, and when the surface of our globe was entirely covered with water." We looked on the sea, then, once more, not as atrugetos, or unfruitful, but as it has been more truly called, the "laboratory of continents."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »