This effort must begin again with each new generation to help nourish both people and the planet.
It's like when you want to have good cotton, you need to fertilise the soil to nourish the seeds for a good yield".
But it did nourish the legend.
Indignation at the alleged behaviour of French executives will only nourish a general feeling that bosses are not only overpaid, but get away with financial abuse scot-free.
In 40AD, Hippalus, a Greek merchant, discovered something the Arabs had long tried to obscure: that the monsoons which nourish India's pepper vines reverse direction mid-year, and that trips from Egypt's Red Sea coast to India and back could thus be shorter and safer than the empire had imagined.
One way to nourish Islamic extremism is to stamp on the harmless expression of Islamist ideas.
Out of these roots grow the organisation's "core products" which, in turn, nourish a number of separate business units.
It will set up its own incubator to nourish local start-ups, in addition to the clean-tech fund and other strategic investments in mature firms.Human capital, however, is another story.
But to those who brood on anniversaries, who suspect every last thing the government does, and who nourish their hatreds in the emptier corners of the country, the trial raises more questions than it answers.
But they have to nourish their fans in an authentic way, says Kiran Gandhi, a former digital analyst for Interscope Records and a touring drummer for M.I.A, a rapper.
You will not nourish the seed of the lichen?
