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Fields Quotes - Page 14

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

Robert Graves, Patrick J. Quinn (2000). “Some speculations on literature, history, and religion”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.

Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, G. Aroul (1984). “Selected Poems”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.

Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”

Our mind is like a field, and performing actions is like sowing seeds in that field.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.35, Tharpa Publications US

The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.

George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.282, Simon and Schuster