Walking in the mountain with bare foot, Teasing the…

I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the bare peak…

— Peter Matthiessen

...I returned to walking up the mountain, and there, in the dim asexual beauty of reddening dawns and skies that firmed to blue, I…

— Mark Helprin

It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out…

— Thomas Brooks

When I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were…

— George Washington Carver

“You ought to see it when it blooms, all dark red flowers from horizon to horizon, like a see of blood. Come the dry…

— George R. R. Martin

Summer grasses, All that remains Of soldiers' dreams

— Anonymous

There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“It is better to always be firm like grasses lying under the ground if they break you in one place or cut you off…

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih

Instead of looking at someone else's grass make your own grasses green

— Detroit Angel

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

— Matsuo Basho

The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of…

— Anonymous

“The size and height of the tree determines how heavily the ground will shake when it falls. The cassava tree falls and not even…

— Israelmore Ayivor

While drawing grasses I learn nothing 'about' grass, but wake up to the wonder that there is grass at all.

— Frederick Franck

Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses

— Anne Sexton

The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.

— Henry David Thoreau