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“The old Indian teaching was that is is wrong to tear loose from its place on the earth anything that may be growing there. It may be cut off, but it should not be uprooted. The trees and the grass have spirits. Whatever one of such growth may be destroyed by some good Indian, his act is done in sadness and with a prayer for forgiveness because of his necessities.”

“The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.”

Firsts Earth Fire Tree Blood Angel Thirds Green Forests Grass Burned Trumpets Hail Green Grass

Author:John the Apostle

“When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and the cultivation of wisdom for incalculable eons are used. As a Buddha has been painted on a single scroll in this way, all buddhas are painted buddhas, and all painted buddhas are actual buddhas.”

Way Has Beens Two Earth Used Religion Mark Grass Thirty Clay Blades Altars Lumps Cultivation Blades Of Grass

Author:Dogen

“Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth fluttered under them. The earth was dancing with the cranes, and the low sun, and the wind and sky.”

Earth Water Sun Magic Sky Wind Lows Bird Dancing Grass Shallow Mystic Marshes Cranes Shallow Water

Book:The Yearling

Source: The Yearling

“O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh! When we are dead, my best beloved and I, close well above us, that we may rest forever, sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.”

Wells May Earth Forever Sky Sweet Green Clean Grass Beloved Blades

Author:Conrad Aiken

“The Zebra is striped all over so that the Lion can see him and eat him. Some people say he is striped so that the Lion can not see him. These people believe that the stripes of the Zebra simulate the bars of sunlight falling through the tall jungle grasses and that therefore the Zebra is invisible and that the earth is flat.”

People Believe Earth Fall Invisible Bars Grass Flats Tall Lions Sunlight Can Not Jungle Stripes Simulate Zebras

Book:The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct

Source: The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct

“Of all the everyday plants of the earth, grass is the least pretentious and the most important to mankind. It clothes the earth is an unmistakable way. Directly or indirectly it provides the bulk of man's food, his meat, his bread, every scrap of his cereal diet. Without grass we would all starve, we and all our animals. And what a dismal place this world would be!”

Men World Way Important Would Be Earth Animal Mankind This World Clothes Plant Everyday Bread Grass Meat Diets Scrap Pretentious Cereal

Author:Hal Borland

“The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen far more efficiently than trees. The turnover is faster. Grass reaches out and turns solar energy into carbon. Tillage hyper-aerates the soil, burning out carbon. But because a plant creates bilateral symmetry at the soil horizon, it sloughs off root mass when the top gets chopped off.”

“If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole.”

“Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts The world were poor in thanks, though every soul Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade Of grass, and every atomie of earth To utter it like dew.”

World Soul God Earth Poor Lord Dear Breathe Thanks Grass Blades Dew Saviour Blades Of Grass Dear Lord

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.”

Might Earth Fame Grass Lap Comes And Goes Hue

Author:Dante Alighieri

“It is true there is a scent in the desert, though there may be no flower or tree or blade of grass within miles. It is the essence of the untrodden, untarnished earth herself!”

May Earth Tree Flower Essence Miles Desert Grass Scent Blades Blades Of Grass

Book:The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara

Source: The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara