Poor in the vegetable elements of food, and beggarly in respect to the animal, the vast continental expanse of Australia supports the scantiest aboriginal population of the world, and nourishes it worst.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
Along the edge above runs a shallow red-brown band-it is the soil which nourishes the roots of the grasses of the field: beneath it comes small detached stones in sand; these fall out, loosened by the weather, and roll down the precipice.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
It is the task of the philosopher, a task to which Hegel applies himself most assiduously, to analyze the battle and the victory upon which spiritual being nourishes itself.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry