"It's a productive piece, it's a guy that's hitting.300 that has home run capabilities.
Probably the most productive piece of agricultural land in Britain lies in the foothills of the Black Mountains in Wales.
But even the United States would have to admit, if pressed, that it is itself a largely European creation, a giant offshoot of the most productive piece of geography in the planet's history.
George Gilder, tournament economist and senior bass analyst, Discovery Institute: "G-Dub and I had just put the boat in the water at Lake Claiborne and burned some gas over to a productive little piece of bottom structure that I know about.
** George Gilder, tournament economist and senior bass analyst, Discovery Institute: "G-Dub and I had just put the boat in the water at Lake Claiborne and burned some gas over to a productive little piece of bottom structure that I know about.
Robert Boyle, in his indispensable book, "The Hudson River: A Natural and Unnatural History," may have trumped all future attempts at description when he introduced it as "the most beautiful, messed up, productive, ignored and surprising piece of water on the face of the earth".
It is still a young and occasionally flaky field that perhaps in ecology has so far been more productive at generating interesting think pieces and metaphors than deep insights into how biological communities actually behave.
Cities are productive places.
I have led a long, productive life based on only two pieces of advice, both of which I learned as a preschooler some 80 years ago.
