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“There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. For loneliness assumed the absence of other people, and the solitude she found in that desperate terrain had never admitted the possibility of other people. She wept then. Tears for the deaths of the littlest things: the castaway shoes of children; broken stems of marsh grass battered and drowned by the sea; prom photographs of dead women she never knew; wedding rings in pawnshop windows; the tiny bodies of Cornish hens in a nest of rice.”

Source: Sula

“The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden, His harp shall be restrung, His halls shall echo golden To songs of yore re-sung. The woods shall wave on mountains. And grass beneath the sun; His wealth shall flow in fountains And the rivers golden run. The streams shall run in gladness, The lakes shall shine and burn, And sorrow fail and sadness At the Mountain-king’s return!”

“The dragon is withered, His bones are now crumbled; His armour is shivered, His splendour is humbled! Though sword shall be rusted, And throne and crown perish With strength that men trusted And wealth that they cherish, Here grass is still growing, And leaves are yet swinging, The white water flowing, And elves are yet singing Come! Tra-la-la-lally! Come back to the valley!”

Men Stills Water Wealth White Growing Singing Bones Grass Dragons Cherish Valleys Trusted Crowns Thrones Withered Armour Splendour White Water

Book:The Hobbit

Source: The Hobbit

“Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the corn, these things that ate and drank sunshine, grass, mud, and rain, and then in the shortening days laid down their lives for our welfare and onward resolve. There's the miracle for you, the absolute sacrifice that still holds back seed: a germ of promise to do the whole thing again, another time. . . Thanksgiving is Creation's birthday party. Praise harvest, a pause and sigh on the breath of immortality.”

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“I'm glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, "My God! I love everything." Yeah, now if that isn't a hazard to our country... How are we gonna justify arms dealing when we realize that we're all one?”

Ifs Knows Country Law Political Realizing Hours Four Happened Fields Arms Yeah Green Glad Our Country Grass Justify One Time Psychedelic Hazards Mushrooms Green Grass

Author:Bill Hicks

“Everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you'll remember, mountaintops are rocky and cold. There is no growth on the top of a mountain. Sure, the view is great, but what's a view for? A view just gives us a glimpse of our next destination-our next target. But to hit that target, we must come off the mountain, go through the valley, and begin to climb the next slope. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.”

Ifs Want Life Giving Remember Next Growth Views Rich Cold Becoming Mountain Grass Soil Climbs Target Destination Valleys Glimpse Summit Slopes Lush Noticer

Author:Andy Andrews

“Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not a competition; there's plenty of pain to go around.”

Way Different Seems Pain Dies Sides Natural Competition Plenty Grass Different Ways Greener Greener On The Other Side Grass Is Greener On The Other Side

Book:Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

Source: Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

“Lady Katsa, is it?" "Yes, Lord Prince." "I've heard you have one eye green as the Middluns grasses, and the other eye blue as the sky." "Yes, Lord Prince." "I've heard you can kill a man with the nail of your smallest finger." She smiled. "Yes, Lord Prince." "Does it make it easier?" "I don't understand you." "To have beautiful eyes. Does it lighten the burden of your Grace, to know you have beautiful eyes?”

Knows Men Doe Eye Beautiful Lord Grace Heard Sky Easier Blue Green Fingers Burden Grass Smallest Nails Beautiful Eyes Katsa

Author:Kristin Cashore

“I give you five minutes to spare your blushes. here is the little bronze key that opens the ebony caskets on the mantle piece in the Louise-Phillipe room. In one of the caskets you will find a scorpion, in the other, a grasshopper, both very cleverly imitated in Japanese bronze: they will say yes or no for you. If you turn the scorpion round, that will mean to me, when I return that you have said yes. The grasshopper will mean no... The grasshopper, be careful of the grass hopper! A grasshopper does not only turn: it hops! It hops! And it hops jolly high!”

Ifs Giving Mean Littles Doe Said Turns Rooms Five Pieces Minutes Keys Return Rounds Careful Grass Hops Be Careful Spares Five Minutes Bronze Jolly Yes Or No Scorpions Caskets Grasshoppers

Author:Gaston Leroux

“The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of children, already gathered like crikets on the grass, rose through the hot twilight.”

Children Stars Voice Behinds Sun Gone Hot Rose West Grass Tall Twilight Apartment Movie Star Unclear

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers' imperial dreams.”

Dream Summer Remains Soldier Grass All That Remains

Author:Matsuo Basho

“There had been a popular joke on Freedom, started by a man named Calder. Looking down from space, he had said, the dominant life forms on Earth were obviously the cereals and other grasses. They occupied all the most desirable and fertile land; and they had tamed insects and animals to care for them. In particular, they had domesticated the bipeds to nurture and cultivate them and to save and plant their seed. Now, watching the farmers, Alex could easily imagine that they were worshiping and genuflecting before their masters.”

Men Said Care Earth Form Space Animal Imagine Land Particular Masters Jokes Plant Seeds Grass Farmers Imagine That Dominant Nurture Desirable Insects Alex Fertile Cereal Looking Down Tamed

Book:Fallen Angels

Source: Fallen Angels

“Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.”

Ifs Country Grows Cities Magic Streets Spring Grass Farms Agriculture Bryan Crown Of Thorns

Author:William Jennings Bryan

“When the wind blows,the grass bends.”

Wind Blow Grass

Book:Thinking Through Confucius

Source: Thinking Through Confucius

“I have never really thought of him as a person, either.... A guy whose strings were broken, who didn’t feel the root of his leaves of grass connected to the field, a guy who was cracked. Like me.”

Feels Persons Guy Fields Broken Roots Connected Like Me Grass Strings Cracked Leaves Of Grass

Author:John Green

“Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.”

Looks Seems Night White Tree Dog Wave Grass Funeral Far Away Tombs Gloom Embodiment Ghastly Cypresses Yew

Book:Dracula

Source: Dracula

“You pile of stones, you waste, you desolation, I'll stuff you with misery till it comes out of your eyes. I'll change your heart into green grass, and all you love into a sheep. I'll turn you into a bad poet with dreams.”

Heart Dream Eye Turns Stuff Poet Waste Stones Green Misery Grass Sheep Desolation Green Grass

Book:The Last Unicorn

Source: The Last Unicorn

“If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.”

Ifs Sides Water Higher Bills Envy Grass Fence Greener Grass Is Greener Grass Is Always Greener Greener On The Other Side Grass Is Greener On The Other Side

Author:Debbie Macomber

“The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood.”

World Looks Littles I Can Whole Feelings Earth Bits Pieces Alive Growing Rocks Mountain Essentials Ocean Woods Whole World Instance Grass Magnificent Growing Things Old Wood

Author:Ansel Adams

“I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.”

People May Remember Names Memories Secret Rich Tree Childhood Flower Summer Bird Seasons Grass Odor Toads

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over a cheek. You are the privileged person to whom everything is taken. The Kings of Tarshish shall bring gifts.”

Persons Long Running Earth Song Fall Stars Taken Sky Tears Kings Smell Endless Grass Cheeks Privileged Cicadas Long Grass

Book:Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

“If they'd been dogs, they would have all been in the yard eating grass and trying to yak up whatever was making them feel so lousy. Not a bone gnawed, not a ball chased-all tails went unwagged. Oh, life is a fast cat, a short leash, a flea in that place where you just can't scratch.”

Ifs Feels Trying Life Is Dog Eating Cat Balls Bones Grass Tails Yards Scratches Fleas Leashes Yaks

Book:The Lust Lizard Of Melancholy Cove: Book 2: Pine Cove Series

Source: The Lust Lizard Of Melancholy Cove: Book 2: Pine Cove Series

“I hear voices. A shout. A laugh. Clay's laugh. I strained to see through the night. Fog had rolled in from Lake Ontario, but I could hear him laughing. The concrete turned to grass. The fog wasn't from the lake, but from a pond. Our pond. I was at Stonehaven, bounding through the back acres. Clay was running ahead of me.”

Running Night Voice Laughing Grass Lakes Concrete Fog Clay Ponds Acres Ontario

Book:Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings

Source: Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings

“We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day you rest among ordinary, everyday things that have been familiar to you since childhood, grass, bushes, a dog (or a cat), a chair, but that changes when you realize that every object is an enormous army, an inexhaustible swarm.”

Has Beens Made Earth Realizing Clear Childhood Dog Objects Ordinary Cat Army Everyday Enormous Forests Familiar Grass Chairs Dirt Unfamiliar Pebbles Swarms Everyday Things Clear Day

Book:Cosmos: A Novel

Source: Cosmos: A Novel

“VIDEO ARCHIVE- INTERVIEW 24768 . GOLD-EYE I like trees… grass… only birds in sky. People walking safe. Family No Creatures. Sleep all night safe. Walk under sun in own place. Grow plants. Build. Be father with mother. Have Children. A place like Petar told me. Home. After Change goes back… I want home.”

People Want Children Home Eye Mother Night Father Grows Sleep Walks Sun Tree Sky Walking Safe Creatures Bird Gold Plant Video Grass Interviews All Night Archives

Author:Garth Nix

“Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." - The Talmud”

Grows Angel Grass Over It Blades Angelic Blades Of Grass

Book:Push: A Novel

Source: Push: A Novel

“However, I have never clogged myself with the praises of pastoral life, nor with nostalgia for an innocent past of perverted acts in pastures. No. One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes—I can’t even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there’s a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. It is more important to affirm the least sincere; the clouds get enough attention as it is and even they continue to pass. Do they know what they’re missing? Uh huh.”

Source: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

“A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog, or stroke its warm fur; to tell pain from everything it's not; to squeeze inside events, dawdle in views, to seek the least of all possible mistakes. An extraordinary chance to remember for a moment a conversation held with the lamp switched off; and if only once to stumble upon a stone, end up soaked in one downpour or another, mislay your keys in the grass; and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes; and to keep on not knowing something important.”

Source: Monologue of a Dog

“It was nice standing out in the darkness, in the damp grass, with spring coming on and a feeling in my heart of imminent disaster.”

Heart Feelings Darkness Nice My Heart Spring Standing Disaster Grass Standing Out Damp

Book:Wonder Boys

Source: Wonder Boys

“There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movements they could not feel. 'Not a bird!' said Sam mournfully. 'No, no birds,' said Gollum. 'Nice birds!' He licked his teeth. 'No birds here. There are snakeses, wormses, things in the pools. Lots of things, lots of nasty things. No birds,' he ended sadly. Sam looked at him with distaste.”

Feels Said Silence Nice Air Movement Broken Bird Empty Surface Seeds Teeth Grass Pool Nasty Blades Trembling Quiver Distaste

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“Okay let's get this over with, no I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, No I didn't eat grass as a child.”

Children Okay Green Grass Wicked Wicked The Musical

Author:Gregory Maguire

“I sat on the hill, the wind whispering through the long grass that surrounded me. I stared at the stars and wanted more than what I was and more than what the world was and just - wanted.”

World Long Wanted Stars Wind Hills Grass Sat Whispering Long Grass

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.”

People Men Moments Home Past Sleep Danger Safe Destruction Storm Grass Gathering Thunder Halt Sleeping In Beloved Country Cry The Beloved Country Gathering Places

Author:Alan Paton

“Total?" I called. He looked up alertly, then ran over to me, small pink tongue hanging out. Total?" I said when he was close. "Can you talk?" He flopped down on the grass, panting slightly. "Yeah. So?" Jeezum. I mean, mutant weirdos are nothing new to me, you know? But a talking dog?”

Knows Mean Said Talking Dog Yeah Tongue Grass Ran Hanging Out Nothing New Weirdo Mutants

Author:James Patterson

“Where is he? Bridgerton!" he bellowed. Three chestnut heads swiveled in his direction. Simon stomped across the grass, murder in his eyes. "I meant the idiot Bridgerton." "That, I believe," Anthony said mildly, tilting his chin toward Colin, "would refer to you.”

Believe Said Eye Three I Believe Murder Idiot Grass His Eyes Chins Chestnuts

Author:Julia Quinn

“But the humans weren't what made my steps falter as I walked through grass that had turned bright green with summer's touch. It was Dimitri. Always Dimitri. Dimitri, the man I loved. Dimitri, the Strigoi I wanted to save. Dimitri, the monster I'd most likely have to kill. The love we'd shared always burned within me, no matter how often I told myself to move on, no matter how much the world did think I'd move on. He was always with me, always on my mind, always making me question myself.”

Thinking Men World Mind Humans Made Matter Wanted Moving Steps Summer Green Monsters Grass Burned Dimitri Always On My Mind

Author:Richelle Mead

“I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there... I sat there watching their living room shining out of the dark beside the pond. It looked like a fairy tale functioning happily in the post-World War II gothic of America before television crippled the imagination of America and turned people indoors and away from living out their own fantasies with dignity... Anyway, I just kept getting smaller and smaller beside the pond, more and more unnoticed in the darkening summer grass until I disappeared into the 32 years that have passed since then.”

“A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in texture and mood, in tone and meaning, warped by a thousand factors of season, of heat or cold, of still or multi winds, torqued by odors, tastes, and the fabrics of ice or grass, of bud or leaf or black-drawn naked limbs. And as a day changes so do its subjects, bugs and birds, cates, dogs, butterflies and people.”

Source: The Winter of our Discontent

“Variations: II Green light, from the moon, Pours over the dark blue trees, Green light from the autumn moon Pours on the grass ... Green light falls on the goblin fountain Where hesitant lovers meet and pass. They laugh in the moonlight, touching hands, They move like leaves on the wind ... I remember an autumn night like this, And not so long ago, When other lovers were blown like leaves, Before the coming of snow.”

“We can hear others, and we can travel with them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the other by a crazy root system, like so many leaves of grass. But the game makes me wonder wheter we can really ever fully become another.”

Moving Games Wonder Imagine Crazy Roots Connected Grass Leaves Of Grass

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass."”

World Want Littles Huge Equal Green Casts Forests Grass Hiding Shade Insects Blades Lawns Monotonous Blades Of Grass

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“I have never looked into my sister's eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my arms to the beguiling moon. I’ve never used an airplane bathroom. Or worn a hat. Or been kissed like that. I’ve never driven a car. Or slept through the night. Never a private talk. Or a solo walk. I’ve never climbed a tree. Or faded into a crowd. So many things I’ve never done, but oh, how I’ve been loved. And, if such things were to be, I’d live a thousand lives as me, to be loved so exponentially.”

Ifs Done Eye Used Night Walks Tree Car Arms Thousand Moon Raised Crowds Driven Grass Hats My Sister Airplane Worn Solo Bathroom Faded

Book:The Girls

Source: The Girls

“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. And from the inside, too, I'd duplicate Myself, my lamp, an apple on a plate: Uncurtaining the night, I'd let dark glass Hang all the furniture above the grass, And how delightful when a fall of snow Covered my glimpse of lawn and reached up so As to make chair and bed exactly stand Upon that snow, out in that crystal land!”

Night Fall Dark Sky Land Bed Shadow Glasses Snow Grass Apples Chairs Covered Plates Delightful Glimpse Furniture Lamps Crystals Flew Lawns Duplicate Fluff Azure Windowpane Dark Glasses

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.”

Way Looks Mean Long Stills Matter Suffering Break Alive Thousand Roots Towns Metaphor Careful Ships Grass Strings Be Careful You Choose Shortage

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.”

Death Gone Stones Green Grass Heels Hamlet And Ophelia Ophelia Turf Hamlet Ophelia Hamlet Death

Author:William Shakespeare

“I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.”

Thinking Want Looks Art I Can Beautiful Water Tree Land Beach Grass Sand Get Over Beautiful Art Ruining It

Book:The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

“The other mammoths were as protective of the dying as they were of newborns, and they gathered around tying to make the fallen one get up. When all was over, they buried the dead ancestor under piles of dirt, grass, leaves, or snow. Mammoths were even known to bury other dead animals, including humans.”

Humans Animal Known Dying Including Snow Get Up Grass Fallen Buried Ancestor Dirt Protective

Author:Jean M. Auel

“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

“Mr. Stock came out of the competition tent carrying his zeppelin marrow on one shoulder and demanding to know what was going on. When he saw the hordes advancing on Aidan, he charged off that way, whirling the great vegetable. The Puck, who was rushing behind the horde, yelling at them to grab Aidan and kill Rolf, was Mr. Stock's first victim. The marrow caught him THOCK! on the side of the head. It laid the Puck out cold on the grass, but the mighty vegetable remained intact, mottled and glossy”

Knows Way Firsts Sides Behinds Saws Cold Victim Competition Caught Shoulders Grass Vegetables Rushing Yelling Advancing Tents Zeppelins Puck Horde Marrow

Author:Diana Wynne Jones

“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)

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