Rejoice, O ye women, for he that fertilizes shall come!
"Witch-Doctors"
Charles Beadle
He said to himself that a river was the most exact symbol of the active life; one follows it from its source through all its courses across the territories it fertilizes; it has fulfilled its assigned task before it dies, immersing itself in the gaping sepulchre of the seas; but the pond, that tamed water, imprisoned in a hedge of reeds which it has itself caused to grow in fertilizing the soil of its bank, has concentrated itself, lived on itself, not seemed to achieve any known work, save to keep silence and reflect on the infinite of heaven.
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
Its death fertilizes nothing and those who breathe its fetid emanations are struck by the ill that killed it.
"The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters"
George Sand, Gustave Flaubert Translated by A.L. McKensie