Grass Quotes

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When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone,… — Henry Beston
To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the… — Walt Whitman
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them… — Carl Sandburg
My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a… — Al McGuire
See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He burns, too, the purest of… — Herman Melville
Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. — Max Ehrmann
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge. — Thomas A. Edison
Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to… — Karl Kraus
The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or… — Freya Stark
We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things: the… — Black Elk
The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow! Grow!"… — Steven Pressfield
I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass. — Laozi
I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf. — Joe Namath
Meditate, oft. Separate thyself for a season from the cares of the world. Get close to nature and learn from the lowliest of that which… — Edgar Cayce
He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it, warming in his… — Kim Edwards
By `God` I mean godliness; the whole existence is full of godliness. And when you will come to know, you will not see a god… — Rajneesh
I don't believe in taking much of a divot, especially with the longer irons. You want to barely comb the grass through impact. It's the… — Moe Norman
The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer. — Denise Levertov
I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a… — Violette Leduc

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