Grasses Quotes
57 quotes by 53 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.
— Black Elk
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The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.
— J. Frank Dobie
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I held a blue flower in my hand, probably a wild aster, wondering what its name was, and then thought that human names for natural…
— Sally Carrighar
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Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as…
— Jerzy Kosinski
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Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and animal that we…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new trees, strange flowers…
— Helen Keller
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Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.
— Dogen
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I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as…
— Pierre Loti
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From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees.
— F. S Flint
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I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted to the wayward…
— Lucretius
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There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Since the age of six, I have had a passion for drawing things. Now that I am 75 years, I have finally learned something of…
— Hokusai
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I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody’s buying…
— Hayao Miyazaki
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The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.
— Henry David Thoreau
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I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . . But though I…
— Richard Aldington
Who Wrote These Grasses Quotes
53 authors contributed a total of 57 Grasses Quotes, led by these top contributors: