The idea that the fertile earth is female and nurtures humans, was not limited to the Greco-Roman world.

Heavy rains have fallen, softening the dark, fertile earth that used to be Somalia's breadbasket.

Endive has no special soil needs, just the same reasonably fertile and moist earth enjoyed by most vegetables.

The major soil type is the relatively fertile but easily eroded red earth.

It was probably in combination with the fertile earth important for the first settlers in the area.

The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit.

It was the countenance of the fertile earth, forever giving birth, forever burying her children.

The black earth, so fertile where it wasn't stone capped, gave deceptive handholds, crumbling under her hands.

The sun rose in the east, long rays slanting over the fertile earth.

Later, Japanese farmers moved into the area for its fertile earth.