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the deliberate nothing a field does to remember how to be everything.
means Describing land left unplanted for a season or more to let it recover its fertility — or, by extension, any period of rest or inactivity that's actually doing quiet, restorative work.
from From Old English 'fealg' or 'fealh,' meaning harrowed or ploughed land, and tied to the verb 'fealgian,' to break up ground. The pale-brownish color sense of 'fallow' (as in a fallow deer) comes from a different but similarly ancient Old English word, 'fealu,' meaning yellowish or dun — the two have been comfortably tangled in English for so long that a fallow field and a fallow deer share the same spelling while wandering in from slightly different roots.
- root meaning
- From Old English for plowed but unsown ground
- soil rest
- Idle land rebuilds nitrogen and traps moisture
- deer color
- Fallow also names a pale tan-brown shade
- ancient law
- Romans rotated fields fallow every other year
- mind too
- Fallow periods often precede creative breakthroughs