Grass Quotes

1103 Grass quotes by 802 unique authors

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils. — Cyril Connolly
These are the things I prize And hold of dearest worth: Light of the sapphire skies, Peace of the silent hills, Shelter of the forests,… — Henry Van Dyke
Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural… — Beverley Nichols
And from the phlox and mignonette Rich attars drift on every hand; And when star-vestured twilight comes The pale moths weave a saraband. And crickets… — Clinton Scollard
We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what… — William Vogt
Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses among all growing… — Nachman of Breslov
I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get… — Katharine Whitehorn
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. — Henry David Thoreau
The classic relationship with grass that early hippies had was that it's better shared with friends. You can't really get high with a bad attitude.… — Stephen Gaskin
A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles.… — Loren Eiseley
Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't… — Bob Hope
Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass. — Bob Hope
A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don't give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they? — Lee Trevino
Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round… — William Carlos Williams
My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake me as they… — William Wordsworth
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

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