On Mars, the rover's probes showed that the blueberries, but not the surrounding rock or soil, contained bountiful amounts of hematite.
The fledgling nation was not rich, he wrote, "But our soil is bountiful, and our people industrious, and we have reason to flatter ourselves that we will gradually become useful to our friends".
A rainforest isn't just a rainforest because of the birds, insects, monkeys, and plants within it, but also because ample rain and sunlight fall from above, and bountiful nutrients lurk in the soil.
"The first Polynesian colonists found themselves on an island with fertile soil, abundant food, bountiful building materials, ample lebensraum, and all the prerequisites for comfortable living," Diamond wrote in a 1995 article for Discover magazine.
Thank you, me hearties, for your bountiful song booty!
As will all fruit and vegetable planting, having nutrient rich soil is necessary for a bountiful harvest.
Bountiful veins were in Indian territory.
The soil was rich, the sunshine and rain bountiful.
Nearly a decade on, and still with extremely variable success, my six square metres of polluted urban soil and a few pots have become a bountiful experiment in miniature farming, a city jungle with more than a hundred different things to eat, though, sadly, nowhere to sit.
However, it holds its nutrients better than most types of soil and, if drainage can be improved, it produces bountiful plants.
