The Compendium of Bheḷa 1.5.16

1.5.16

yathā hy akālavṛṣṭyā ca bhūmau bījaṃ vipadyate | vardhate kālavṛṣṭyā ca dehino ' pi tathā rasaiḥ ||

For just as seed on earth is ruined by untimely rain, / and grows through timely rain, so too in an embodied being through the chyle [of food].