Pasture
noun
A large area of land where animals feed on the grass.
The cows are grazing in the pasture.
Often appears as...
- grazing pasture
- pasture land
noun
A situation or activity that provides a chance to progress or succeed.
The businesswoman left her job to seek greener pastures.
Often appears as...
- greener pastures
- look for new pastures
verb
To let animals feed on a pasture.
The shepherd pastures the sheep on the mountainside.
Often appears as...
- pasture animals
- pasture sheep
noun
A large area of land where animals feed on the grass.
The cows are grazing in the pasture.
Often appears as...
- grazing pasture
- pasture land
noun
A situation or activity that provides a chance to progress or succeed.
The businesswoman left her job to seek greener pastures.
Often appears as...
- greener pastures
- look for new pastures
verb
To let animals feed on a pasture.
The shepherd pastures the sheep on the mountainside.
Often appears as...
- pasture animals
- pasture sheep
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Habitat
Pasture refers to land with grass where farm animals graze, not wild animals.
The horses were taken to the pasture for their afternoon grazing.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Fenced
While pastures can be enclosed, they can also be open lands without fences.
Over the hill, the pasture stretched out as far as the eye could see.
Pro Tip 3/3Agriculture Term
'Pasture' is often used in farming and rural contexts, rather than urban settings.
The farmer decided to rotate his pastures to maintain the soil quality.
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Habitat
Pasture refers to land with grass where farm animals graze, not wild animals.
The horses were taken to the pasture for their afternoon grazing.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Fenced
While pastures can be enclosed, they can also be open lands without fences.
Over the hill, the pasture stretched out as far as the eye could see.
Pro Tip 3/3Agriculture Term
'Pasture' is often used in farming and rural contexts, rather than urban settings.
The farmer decided to rotate his pastures to maintain the soil quality.
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Habitat
Pasture refers to land with grass where farm animals graze, not wild animals.
The horses were taken to the pasture for their afternoon grazing.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Fenced
While pastures can be enclosed, they can also be open lands without fences.
Over the hill, the pasture stretched out as far as the eye could see.
Pro Tip 3/3Agriculture Term
'Pasture' is often used in farming and rural contexts, rather than urban settings.
The farmer decided to rotate his pastures to maintain the soil quality.
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The biggest risks facing...
This is one of the world's largest terrestrial carbon sinks, processing millions of carbon every single year. What you see here is a single road over a 30-year period. On either side you see land being cleared for pasture, for cattle, but also for soy and sugar production. You're seeing deforestation on a massive scale.
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Jonathan Foley: The...
The second area, in brown, is the world's pastures and rangelands, where our animals live. That area's about 30 million square kilometers, or about an Africa's worth of land, a huge amount of land, and it's the best land, of course, is what you see. And what's left is, like,
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Nature is everywhere --...
there won't be any nature left for our children when they're adults. But there's a fix for this. So let me explain. Right now, humans use half of the world to live, to grow their crops and their timber, to pasture their animals. If you added up all the human beings,
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Just add water: The...
a relentless advance that transforms pastures and farms into barren wastelands. These are desert locusts— infamous among their locust cousins for their massive swarms and capacity for destruction. But these insects aren't always so insatiable.
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UK National Parks in 100...
shooting birds through a combination of cutting grazing and burning large parts of our national parks are agricultural lands supporting the people livelihoods and cultures that maintain the landscape our final 24 seconds is through pastures
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Why Four Cowboys Rode...
was three of them that we did not get to the point where we felt comfortable taking them on the trip um and they're living on pasture now living a good life but we started the journey um uh this is
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Africa’s Pristine Delta...
channels floodplains lagoons and thousands upon thousands of islands here you can find the abundance of life all around you the annual flood from Angola creates these rich pastures in the Mambo
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From Farm to Table PIPE Nat...
ice-free land on the planet is taken over by agriculture worldwide pastures take up twelve point nine million square miles twice as much as cropland it's
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Incredible Animal...
Risking life and limb to graze on these seaweed pastures.
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Crab vs Eel vs Octopus PIPE...
risking life and limb to graze on these seaweed pastures
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The biggest risks facing...
This is one of the world's largest terrestrial carbon sinks, processing millions of carbon every single year. What you see here is a single road over a 30-year period. On either side you see land being cleared for pasture, for cattle, but also for soy and sugar production. You're seeing deforestation on a massive scale.
Video examples
Jonathan Foley: The...
The second area, in brown, is the world's pastures and rangelands, where our animals live. That area's about 30 million square kilometers, or about an Africa's worth of land, a huge amount of land, and it's the best land, of course, is what you see. And what's left is, like,
Video examples
Nature is everywhere --...
there won't be any nature left for our children when they're adults. But there's a fix for this. So let me explain. Right now, humans use half of the world to live, to grow their crops and their timber, to pasture their animals. If you added up all the human beings,
Video examples
Just add water: The...
a relentless advance that transforms pastures and farms into barren wastelands. These are desert locusts— infamous among their locust cousins for their massive swarms and capacity for destruction. But these insects aren't always so insatiable.
Video examples
UK National Parks in 100...
shooting birds through a combination of cutting grazing and burning large parts of our national parks are agricultural lands supporting the people livelihoods and cultures that maintain the landscape our final 24 seconds is through pastures
Video examples
Why Four Cowboys Rode...
was three of them that we did not get to the point where we felt comfortable taking them on the trip um and they're living on pasture now living a good life but we started the journey um uh this is
Video examples
Africa’s Pristine Delta...
channels floodplains lagoons and thousands upon thousands of islands here you can find the abundance of life all around you the annual flood from Angola creates these rich pastures in the Mambo
Video examples
From Farm to Table PIPE Nat...
ice-free land on the planet is taken over by agriculture worldwide pastures take up twelve point nine million square miles twice as much as cropland it's
Video examples
Incredible Animal...
Risking life and limb to graze on these seaweed pastures.
Video examples
Crab vs Eel vs Octopus PIPE...
risking life and limb to graze on these seaweed pastures
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Kathi Appelt
American Writer
I have always been interested in abandoned cars. I can't tell you how many times I've been in a car, driving, and there's a car sitting in a pasture, totally abandoned. Or on the edge of a creek or something. I always wonder: why did somebody park it in the pasture and leave?
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Erika Jayne
American Actress
Housewives' has shone a light on women of middle age, that you're not out of the game, you're not old, you're not put out to pasture... You're lively, you're doing things, you're aggressive, you're making money, you're recreating yourself.
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Rosanna Arquette
American Actress
I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.
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Jane Smiley
American Writer
All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.
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Pope John XXIII
Italian Clergyman
Christ's flock is made up of sheep that not only listen to their shepherd, but are also able to recognize his voice, to follow him, faithfully and with full awareness, on the pastures of eternal life.
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John Rampton
American Businessman
If your manager is one that isn't engaged with your career development by offering frequent advice and guidance, it's time to look for greener pastures.
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Holly Hunter
American Actress
It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody.
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Ravi Subramanian
Indian Author
There is some confusion in my mind whether to continue to write on banking or try newer pastures.
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Elizabeth McGovern
American Actress
I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.
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George Eliot
British Author
Breed is stronger than pasture.
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Kathi Appelt
American Writer
I have always been interested in abandoned cars. I can't tell you how many times I've been in a car, driving, and there's a car sitting in a pasture, totally abandoned. Or on the edge of a creek or something. I always wonder: why did somebody park it in the pasture and leave?
Quote examples
Erika Jayne
American Actress
Housewives' has shone a light on women of middle age, that you're not out of the game, you're not old, you're not put out to pasture... You're lively, you're doing things, you're aggressive, you're making money, you're recreating yourself.
Quote examples
Rosanna Arquette
American Actress
I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.
Quote examples
Jane Smiley
American Writer
All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.
Quote examples
Pope John XXIII
Italian Clergyman
Christ's flock is made up of sheep that not only listen to their shepherd, but are also able to recognize his voice, to follow him, faithfully and with full awareness, on the pastures of eternal life.
Quote examples
John Rampton
American Businessman
If your manager is one that isn't engaged with your career development by offering frequent advice and guidance, it's time to look for greener pastures.
Quote examples
Holly Hunter
American Actress
It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody.
Quote examples
Ravi Subramanian
Indian Author
There is some confusion in my mind whether to continue to write on banking or try newer pastures.
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Elizabeth McGovern
American Actress
I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.
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George Eliot
British Author
Breed is stronger than pasture.
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