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“I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with men from the Garden District while I was passed out in a houseboat on Lake Pontchartrain, the downdraft of U.S. Army helicopters flattening a plain of elephant grass in my dreams.”

Men Problem Home Dream Dark Wife Garden Window Army Grass Lakes Milk Elephants New Orleans Helicopters

Author:James Lee

“Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings.”

Walks Taste Garden Grass Camps Hiking Darling Meadows Mountaineering Mountain Climbing National Parks Climbing Mountain Inspirational Mountain Climbing Hiking In The Mountains Climbing Mountains Inspirational Yosemite Yellowstone Walks In Nature

Book:THE YOSEMITE COLLECTION of John Muir (Illustrated): The Yosemite, Our National Parks, Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park, A Rival of the Yosemite, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Yosemite Glaciers, Yosemite in Winter & Yosemite in Spring

Source: THE YOSEMITE COLLECTION of John Muir (Illustrated): The Yosemite, Our National Parks, Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park, A Rival of the Yosemite, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Yosemite Glaciers, Yosemite in Winter & Yosemite in Spring

“I go forth to seek To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.”

Speak Magic Garden Claims Lovely Grass Muse Sigh

Author:Anna Akhmatova

“Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer's plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.”

Sin Plans Tree Modern Garden Originals Architecture Grass Parks Wilderness Concrete Occasional Patches Cardinals Developers Modern Architecture Landscaping

Book:Broken Homes

Source: Broken Homes

“Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the mane ofthe grass; the diluted reflection of the sky together with the fleeting sight of the reeds; the Negresses fill their dripping gourds and their red clay containers; the song of the washerwomen; the gorged fields the tall crops ripening.”

Together Song Courses Sound Water Nature Sky Fields Reflection Red Garden Rivers Sight Track Grass Tall Fleeting Clay Crops Sunny Reeds Canals Dripping Containers Ripening Splashing Gourds

Author:Jacques Roumain

“I am tired, I want to go home. I want to continue my art work, I want to plant a garden, I want to walk in the forest, I want to walk in the fields, I just want to lie down on the grass and feel the sun against my skin. I want to be able to hold my family close to me and not have someone tell me time's up.”

Want Feels Art Home Able Lying Walks Sun Fields Garden My Family Skins Tired Plant Forests Grass

Author:Leonard Peltier

“I saw a garden full of flowers which was so beautiful and fragrant. I watched the night sky lying on the grass by a waterfall and it was gorgeous and I would have thought those are the most beautiful things, but then I met you!”

Beautiful Lying Night Saws Sky Flower Mets Garden Grass Beautiful Things Gorgeous Night Sky Waterfalls Flirty

Author:Vincent Gigante

“...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it all...notes pour into the caste of freedom...the freedom to be intense...to defy social order and break the slow kill monotony of censorship. to break from the long bonds of servitude-ruthless adoration of the celestial shepherd. let us celebrate our own flesh-to embrace not ones race mais the marathon-to never let go of the fiery sadness called desire.”

“Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly...If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! He'd say, that’s grass! A pink blur! That’s a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Sometimes House White Race Car Flower Garden Green Rose Grass Brown Drivers Cows Jet Blur Boulevard Rose Garden

Author:Ray Bradbury

“October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content.”

Book Ends Matter Light Action Courses Reading Difficult Findings Pages Garden Tales Golden Grass Chapters April Happy Endings Sunny October

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her did not agree. In a field by the river my love and I did stand, And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand. She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.”

Littles Hands Young Grows Easy White Tree Feet Fields Tears Garden Rivers Agree Foolish Shoulders Snow Grass Snow White

Author:William Butler Yeats

“I want so to live that I work with my hands and my feeling and my brain. I want a garden, a small house, grass, animals, books, pictures, music. And out of this, the expression of this, I want to be writing (Though I may write about cabmen. That’s no matter.) But warm, eager, living life — to be rooted in life — to learn, to desire, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.”

Thinking Want Feels Writing Trying May Book Matter Feelings Hands Desire House Animal Brain Expression Garden Warm Live Life Grass Rooted

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)

“Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun goes down, the cemetery sparkles with tiny candles... no matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. Even in wartime, even in Hitler's time, even in Stalin's time.”

Matter Lost Sun Flower Garden Tiny Graves Grass Covered Candle Brutal Modest Reign Cemetery Sparkle Tombstone Wartime Unbearable Lightness Of Being Colourful Bohemia Greenery

Author:Milan Kundera

“Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its paw. This, he would say, as if coming away from a brandy snifter, is the greatest smell in the world! A bouquet! Great rumours of travel! She would pretend disgust, but the dog's paw was a wonder: the smell of it never suggested dirt. It's a cathedral! her father had said, so-and-so's garden, that field of grasses, a walk through cyclamen--a concentration of hints of all the paths the animal had taken during the day.”

Ifs World Said Hands Father House Walks Animal Wonder Path Taken Dog Fields Taught Garden Skins Smell Grass Concentration Disgusting Dirt Hints Cathedrals Paws Rumours Bouquets Brandy

Book:The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

“Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child of ten, after a butterfly or a dragon-fly. This courtesan who had cost more money in bouquets than would have kept a whole family in comfort, would sometimes sit on the grass for an hour, examining the simple flower whose name she bore.”

Children Sometimes Whole Names Hours Simple Flower Comfort Cost Ten Garden Delight Grass Ran Dragons Butterfly More Money Bores Smallest Examining Whole Family Bouquets Courtesans

Author:Alexandre Dumas-fils

“Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.”

Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

“We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.”

Made Past Term Water Garden Forests Made It Grass Soil Our Past

Author:William Vogt

“Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses among all growing things and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer to talk with the one that I belong to.”

May Prayer Ability Growing Tree Garden Grass Each Day Grants Customs Growing Things

Author:Nachman of Breslov

“How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm wakeful August night.”

Children Light Night Given Summer Garden Warm Grass Toys August Sociable

Book:Selected Poems of Thom Gunn

Source: Selected Poems of Thom Gunn

“She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small sterious world of the ground. In the shade and sun of grass blade forests, small living things had their metropolis.”

World Life Eye Sun Garden Forests Grass Knees Sat Weed Shade Her Eyes Blades Living Things Patches Elbows Metropolis

Book:Sleeping with the enemy

Source: Sleeping with the enemy

“Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.”

Would Be Care Chance Compassion Tree Grew Quiet Garden Plant Heavy Generosity Grass Sunshine Hearted Open Heart

Book:Being There

Source: Being There

“After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her. The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made.”

Feels Made Hard Beautiful Mother Black Sacrifice Bed Spring Garden Tools Phones Jew Wander Grass Pot Weed Gardening Hung Pulling Strokes Couches Colorful Buckets Tropical Chopping Petunias

Author:Stephen M. Irwin