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“Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample land,--the South And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri, And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.”

Soul Body Light Land New York South Ships Grass Covered Shore Tides Corn Manhattan Ohio Sparkling Prairie Hurrying Missouri Spires

Book:Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867

Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867

“When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in meadow-grass the phlox His torch of purple fire: And when the punctual May arrives, With cowslip-garland on her brow, We know what once she gave our lives, And cannot give us now!”

Knows Giving May Walks Fire Our Lives Land Green Grass Locks Purple Brows Torches Meadows Garlands Punctual Attire May Day Spring May

Book:The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor

Source: The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor

“The government sent the Indians to Oklahoma. They had a treaty that said, 'You shall have this land as long as grass grows and water flows.' It was not only a good rhyme but looked like a good treaty, and it was till they struck oil. Then the Government took it away from us again. They said the treaty only refers to 'Water and Grass; it don't say anything about oil.'”

Long Said Real Government Grows Water Land Flow Oil Grass Rhyme They Said Say Anything Treaties Oklahoma

Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1927-1929

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1927-1929

“O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree, So scant of grass, so profligate of pines”

Tree Land Sweet Red Grass Soil Gum

Book:The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer

Source: The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer

“A pioneer is a man who turned all the grass upside down, strung bob-wire over the dust that was left, poisoned the water, cut down the trees, killed the Indian who owned the land and called it progress.”

Men Left Water Cutting Progress Tree Land Dust Indian Grass Bob Wire Pioneers Upside Down

Author:Charles Marion Russell

“All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.”

People Country Would Be Beauty Land Strikes Grass Soil Reasonable Handsome Cattle Fertile Pastures

Book:The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative

Source: The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative