Definition of Cultivation
Cultivation
The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.
Bestowal of time or attention for self-improvement or for the benefit of others; fostering care.
The state of being cultivated; advancement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition; refinement; culture.
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Cultivation Quotations
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Plato
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
James A. Baldwin
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
John Ruskin
Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.
Gary Ryan Blair
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
Daniel Webster
The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.
Ibrahim Babangida
Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it to a high state of cultivation in many places, and then completely destroy it.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.
David Ricardo
The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals.
Ellsworth Huntington
Cultivation Translations
cultivation in French is annexe
cultivation in German is Anbau {m}
cultivation in Italian is coltura
cultivation in Latin is cultura
cultivation in Spanish is cultivo
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