Ah, I could lay me down in this long grass And close my…

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

— Jilly Cooper

Long and long has the grass been growing, Long and long has the rain been falling, Long has the globe been rolling round.

— Walt Whitman

I sat on the hill, the wind whispering through the long grass that surrounded me. I stared at the stars and wanted more than…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“I lay for a long time in silence, staring at the ceiling. Was my life always to be like this? I wondered. Was it…

— Alan Bradley

“We all hit rock bottom; sometimes, you bounce up fast, sometimes you crawl until you can straighten up and sometimes you have to lay…

— J. Autherine

We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly…

— Ansel Adams

He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains. In the…

— Cormac McCarthy

The trees may wish for quiet, but the wind will not subside.

— Anonymous

“And suddenly everything around me seemed to grow quiet, as if he were the wind that blew and I were just a cloud carried…

— Arthur Golden

I must stay under the old tree in the midst of the long grass, the luxury of the leaves, and the song in the…

— Richard Jefferies

The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent scent. In…

— Isak Dinesen

“You won’t see me, but I’ll be the second to the last thing you ever know, I promise.” She let the quiet invade her…

— Lea Griffith

What happens when all the parts of childhood are soldered down, when the young no longer have the time or space to play in…

— Richard Louv

The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes…

— Bobby Jones

“Although she has claim, she is not claimed. In the place where long grass opens, the girl who waited to be loved and cry…

— Toni Morrison