Acres Quote by Annie Dillard

“Therefore, neither confide in nor depend upon a wind-shaken reed, for “all flesh is grass” and all its glory, like the flower of grass,…

— Thomas à Kempis

“The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching,' he said. 'The lawn-cutter might just as…

— Ray Bradbury

“This idea comes to me that we're all grass blades on the same lawn. We've grown up together, shoulder to shoulder, under the same…

— Tim Tharp

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a…

— Ray Bradbury

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to be encountered like wild caribous and moose.

— Henry David Thoreau

Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green…

— Simone de Beauvoir

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.

— John Calvin

I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.

— Janisse Ray

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

— Nan Fairbrother

I've never met a stranger.

— Wally Funk

I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow, or mossy…

— John Ruskin