Jerry Saltz

If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.

American Critic

Robert Grosseteste

Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.

English Statesman

Georg Brandes

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

Danish Critic

Orson Welles

The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.

American Actor

Jamaica Kincaid

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

Novelist

John Lothrop Motley

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

American Historian

Marlo Thomas

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

American Actress

Cheech Marin

Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.

American Comedian

Felicity Kendal

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

English Actress

Ralph Fiennes

I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.

British Actor

Fallow implies a deliberate pause in activity, often for recovery or future benefit.

Temporary Inactivity

'Fallow' can be used metaphorically to describe anything not currently active, like creativity or business.

Metaphorical Use

Being fallow doesn't mean permanent disuse; it implies a future intention to resume activity.

Not Abandoned

'Fallow' as a noun usually refers to a farming practice meant to improve soil, not just any unused land.

Agricultural Practice

Fallow land is part of sustainable agriculture, enhancing the land without chemicals.

Environmental Benefit

A fallow field isn't ignored or neglected; it's purposefully rested to rejuvenate.

Not Just Idle

Fallowing is a cyclical process in agriculture, where land rests in turns.

Cyclical Process

As a verb, 'fallow' means to implement the action of leaving land unseeded.

Active Verb

'Fallow' as a verb is more technical, often used by agriculturalists and environmentalists.

Technical Term

 and so a lot of this logic theory lay fallow as we went down the digital computer revolution, but it's now coming back. So now I'm going to show you the hands-free, autonomous self-replication. So we've tracked in the video the input string, which was green, green, yellow, yellow, green. We set them off on this air hockey table.

Saul Griffith: Hardware...

 and it's one that's laid fallow in research. It was a notion that really came out of Albert Bandura's work, who studied whether people could get a sense of empowerment. The notion of efficacy basically boils down to one -- that if somebody believes that they have the capacity to change their behavior.

Thomas Goetz: It's time...

 and it comes from a passage in the book of Leviticus, that every seven years you should let the land lay fallow. And every seven sets of seven years, the land gets an extra year of rest during which time all families are reunited and people surrounded with the ones they love.

Bruce Feiler: The...

 from those frail beginnings, those seeds, all the way to life. And most of those seeds will fall on fallow planets. So for you, personally, finding an answer to this question of where we came from, of how did this thing happen, that is something you would love to see.

The mathematician who...

 that was within him all along. Miles Davis. His parents were from Arkansas. They migrated to southern Illinois, where he would get the chance to build on the talents that were within him all along but which could have gone fallow in the cotton country of Arkansas.

The Great Migration and...

 this is a different system you know warmer and a lot more open water hopefully we won't have those same impacts for a long period of time so government and private groups are working to restore habitat from short-term flooding a fallow farmland to

Gulf Spill Still...

 be able to kill something twice your son or twice your weight and then what do you do and can't eat all of it their fee for some hungry chicks I would say but you can tell it's quite a warm afternoon give me fallow enjoying some respite in

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 Most of that water is used to grow almond trees, which take years of watering before they start producing almonds. The trees must be watered consistently, or they die, while many other crops can be left fallow and still produce later.

Which type of milk is...

 and the rest these are the fossil fallow of an industrial society and with them we have begun once more to remake the world you know traditionally we have thought of fire history as a subset of natural history particularly

How fire shapes...

 which is lack of water supply that is causing her to have to fallow a lot of land she actually has all of the water resources she needs right below her feet there is a vast pool of subsurface drain

Fallow

Temporary Inactivity

Metaphorical Use

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