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“When loud by landside streamlets gush, And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush, With sun on the meadows And songs in the shadows Comes again to me The gift of the tongues of the lea, The gift of the tongues of meadows. So when the earth is alive with gods, And the lusty ploughman breaks the sod, And the grass sings in the meadows, And the flowers smile in the shadows, Sits my heart at ease, Hearing the song of the leas, Singing the songs of the meadows.”

Heart May Earth Song Break Sun Clear Alive Flower My Heart Singing Shadow Hearing Tongue Ease Loud Grass Meadows Sod Thrush

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

“Yes, I will spend the livelong day With Nature in this month of May; And sit beneath the trees, and share My bread with birds whose homes are there; While cows lie down to eat, and sheep Stand to their necks in grass so deep; While birds do sing with all their might, As though they felt the earth in flight.”

May Home Might Earth Lying Felt Tree Share Months Bird Bread Flight Grass Necks Cows Sheep Long Day

Author:W. H. Davies

“The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery”

Sports Grass Wet Dirt Slippery

Author:Greg Maddux

“Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of ‘Green?’ How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?”

Source: Philip Taaffe: composite nature : a conversation with Stan Brakhage

“How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?”

Fields Color Baby Green Grass Crawling

Book:Philip Taaffe: composite nature : a conversation with Stan Brakhage

Source: Philip Taaffe: composite nature : a conversation with Stan Brakhage

“Creation isn't forcing or commanding something into existence. It's more of a rolling over, a good stretch, blissing out, lying on the grass watching the flowers blowing in the breeze or the clouds floating by.”

Lying Existence Creation Flower Clouds Grass Rolling Floating Breeze Rolling Over

Author:Esther Hicks

“You have to know what's happening in the locker rooms, you have to know what's happening at the grass-roots level. That's the best way to work.”

Knows Way Levels Rooms Happenings Roots Best Way Grass Lockers Locker Room

Author:Jacques Rogge

“The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.”

Grows Bird Fruit Guides Flight Grass Birds In Flight

Book:Red ribbon on a white horse

Source: Red ribbon on a white horse

“I am sick of four walls and a ceiling I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass.”

Needs Four Sky Wall Sick Grass Ceilings Four Walls

Book:Dartmouth Lyrics

Source: Dartmouth Lyrics

“I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass; I will up and get me away where the hawk is wheeling Lone and high, And the slow clouds go by. I will get me away to the waters that glass The clouds as they pass. I will get me away to the woods.”

Needs Water Sky Clouds Glasses Woods Grass Lone Hawks Wheeling

Book:Dartmouth Lyrics

Source: Dartmouth Lyrics

“First, recognize that you are not a sheep who will be satisfied with only a few nibbles of dry grass or with following the herd as they wander aimlessly, bleating and whining, all of their days. Separate yourself now from the multitude of humanity so that you will be able to control your own destiny. Remember that what others think and say and do need never influence what you think and say and do.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Able Remember Humanity Destiny Influence Following Satisfied Wander Grass Dry Sheep Multitudes Herds Whining

Author:Og Mandino

“Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.”

“The grass is always greener over the septic tank.”

Grass Tanks Greener Grass Is Greener Grass Is Always Greener Grass Is Greener On The Other Side

Book:Es darf auch mal Champagner sein

Source: Es darf auch mal Champagner sein

“When you are tempted to look elsewhere for greener pastures, just remember someone else is probably looking at yours. And if another pasture looks greener, perhaps it is getting better care and attention. Grass is always greener . . . where it is watered.”

Ifs Looks Care Remember Justice Attention Temptation Grass Get Better Elsewhere Tempted Pastures Greener Grass Is Always Greener

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass”

Wind Sorrow Grass Melancholy

Author:Charles Kuralt

“By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on quilts, on the grass in a summer evening, among the sounds of the night. May God bless my people, my uncle, my aunt, my mother, my good father, oh, remember them kindly in their time of trouble; and in the hour of their taking away.”

People May Earth Remember Lying Mother Night Father Sound Hours Chance Trouble Sorrow Summer Evening Grass Bless Uncles Aunt God Bless Good Father Quilts Times Of Trouble Summer Evening

Book:A Death in the Family

Source: A Death in the Family

“I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse. I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea. You may bury my body in Sussex grass, You may bury my tongue at Champmedy. I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee”

Heart May Body Lying Easy My Heart Quiet Tongue Grass Knees Wounded Wounded Knee

Author:Stephen Vincent Benet

“It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.”

Walks Grass Forbidden

Author:Augusto Boal

“I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off.”

Trade Favors Rational Grass Feds Corn Suggesting Trade Offs

Author:Joel Salatin

“Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.”

Two Pleasure Study Produce Profit Grass Blades Blades Of Grass

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

“Fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.”

Differences Roots Fellows Grass Texas

Author:Lloyd Bentsen

“The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass toward the play structure. His mother watched him go, proud, tickled, unaware that every time they toddled away from you, they came back a little different, ten seconds older and nearer to the day when they left you for good. Pearl divers in training, staying under a few seconds longer every time.”

Life Littles Different Play Mother Left Boys Proud Ten Training Structure Grass Staying Seconds Pearls Little Boys Away From You

Author:Michael Chabon

“One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any knowledge of number. How must he have felt, then, to see crowds of people mingling in the streets? Before that day he would not have believed that so many people existed in all the world. And what wonder it must have been to discover flocks of birds, and piles of stones, leaves on trees and blades of grass! To suddenly realise that, his whole life long, he had been kept at arm’s length from multiplicity.”

Source: Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates Our Lives

“I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar. The idea occurred to me there on the site. Take a knife and cut open the earth, and with time the grass would heal it. As if you cut open the rock and polished it.”

Ifs Ideas Earth Pain Loss Cutting Rocks Heal Grass Knives Scar Site Never Quit Polished

Author:Maya Lin

“My young men shall never work, men who work cannot dream; and wisdom comes to us in dreams. You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mothers breast? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. You ask me to dig for stone. Shall I dig under her skin for her bones? Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again. You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it and be rich like white men. But how dare I cut off my mother's hair.”

“The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering from the bent tip of a grass blade, looking for a route.”

Writing Book Grass Sensations Daring Routes Bent Blades Spinning Writing A Book Blinded

Author:Janet Burroway

“I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.”

Found Father Water Hours Education Mathematics Filled Math Passing Passings Mathematical Grass Cows Tanks Fractions Arithmetic Decimals

Book:Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of walking unembraced.”

Looks Lovers Walking Grass Invitations Indulge Parting Extravagance Wedding Invitation

Book:Poems, 1906 to 1926

Source: Poems, 1906 to 1926

“All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.”

Tree All Things Grass Dry Taoism Withered Supple

Author:Laozi

“Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.”

Littles Natural Wonderful Grass Wonderful Things Bugs Pitcher

Author:Dan Quisenberry

“Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.”

Made Space Walks Journey Walking Details Wander Grass Hiking Sunlight Trekking Strolling Sauntering Tapestry

Book:The Secret Worlds of Colin Fletcher

Source: The Secret Worlds of Colin Fletcher

“I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.”

Self Feelings Past Found Secret Consciousness Grew One Day Terror Grass Midst Tall Recalls Delicious June Self Conscious Self Consciousness

Author:Pierre Loti

“Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we are going to save environmentalism and the environment, we must also save an endangered indicator species: the child in nature.”

Ifs Heart Children Hands Earth Young Passion Nature Environment Species Environmental Grass Sleeves Environmentalism Muddy Indicators Children And Nature

Author:Richard Louv

“A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.”

Dream Summer Remains Ancient Warrior Grass All That Remains Thickets

Author:Matsuo Basho

“The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent scent. In a little while on all sides the Cicada would begin to sing. The grass was me , and the air, the distant invisible mountains were me, the tired oxen were me. I breathed with the slight night-wind in the thorn trees.”

Littles Long Night Sides Air Tree Wind Cold Mountain Tired Invisible Grass Wet Scent Lungs Herbs Dripping Oxen Cicadas Long Grass

Book:Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

“Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew, earth or moss.... We easily forget that we are track-markers, through, because most of our journeys now occur on asphalt and concrete--and these are substances not easily impressed.”

Humans Made Earth Walks Forget Animal Journey Track Snow Substance Grass Sand Passages Concrete Impressed Mud Dew Moss Markers Asphalt

Author:Robert Macfarlane

“We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice!”

Choices Politician Perseverance Hungry Persistence Grass Bombs Atoms Pakistan Not Giving Up Atom Bomb

Author:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

“Network marketing is really the greatest source of grass-roots capitalism, because it teaches people how to take a small bit of capital, that is your time, and build the American dream.”

People Dream Bits Teach Source Capitalism Roots Marketing Grass American Dream Network Marketing

Author:Jim Rohn

“Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and die, but reproduces something.”

Giving Dies Return Valuable Grass Weed Infidelity Blades Blades Of Grass

Author:Thomas Chalmers

“To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being stupid, to be interested without being compulsive, to be happy without being hysterical... smoke grass.”

Stupid Mad Peaceful Smoke Grass Cannabis Hysterical Being Stupid Being Mad

Author:Ken Kesey

“I like to take a puff or two before going on the air. I still get stage fright when I have to perform. A little grass gets rid of the problem.”

Littles Stills Two Problem Air Stage Grass Smoking Weed Marijuana Fright Puff Stage Fright Smoking Weed Smokin Weed

Author:Bob Denver

“Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?”

Children Grass

Book:Alan Bennett Plays 1: Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus and Enjoy

Source: Alan Bennett Plays 1: Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus and Enjoy

“I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.”

World Littles Whole Past Universe House Gone Mountain Rivers Around The World Grass Length Lots Of Money Blades Blades Of Grass

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and surpassing beauty in nature because none of these tries forcibly to transgress its limitations.”

Life Inspirational Trying Stars Sky Fields Inspirational Life Profound Limitation Grass Nature Beauty Surpassing Stars In The Sky

Book:The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

“Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to draw sustenance from the uttermost tips of its rootlets simply to grow where it is as grass; it does not vainly strive to become a banyan tree; and so the earth gains a lovely carpet of green.”

Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

“Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.”

Hard Nature Strength Heavy Grass Iron Concrete

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers if you demand it. They will sell whatever sells at a profit.”

Ifs Men Running Industry Demand Sells Profit Range Grass Executives Feds Businessman Fast Food Hamburgers Bad Man Food Industry Fast Food Nation

Book:Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Source: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

“When it comes to your marriage, if the grass looks greener somewhere else, it's time to water your own yard!”

Ifs Looks Water Grass Yards Somewhere Else Greener

Author:Craig Groeschel

“It is the retention by twentieth-century, Atom-Age men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and I will stay in mine. If your sheep eat our grass we will kill you, or we may kill you anyhow to get all the grass for our own sheep. Anyone who tries to make us change our ways is a witch and we will kill him. Keep out of our village.”

Ifs Men Way Trying May Age Views Century Mines Point Of View Grass Village Witch Atoms Sheep Twentieth Century Retention

Author:Carleton S. Coon

“We are here for what amounts to a few/hours,/a day at most./We feel around making sense of the terrain,/our own new limbs,/Bumping up against a herd of bodies/until one becomes home./Moments sweep past. The grass bends/then learns again to stand.”

Feels Moments Home Body Past Hours Amount Make Sense Grass Coming Home Limbs Herds Terrain

Author:Tracy K. Smith

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