Grasses Quotes
57 quotes by 49 authors
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It is a thought as sweet as heaven to know that in the minds of each of us the may by the fence still blooms…
— Eve Langley
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Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses fall. . . .
— Andrew Marvell
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It is not easy for a man to be as great as a mountain or a forest. But that is why the creator gave them…
— Kent Nerburn
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It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the…
— Lewis Thomas
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Candleford Green was but a small village and there were fields and meadows and woods all around it. As soon as Laura crossed the doorstep,…
— Flora Thompson
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For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer…
— Edith Wharton
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Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world. Knee-deep in grasses…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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The legendary tumbleweed is really a nurse crop that protects the growth of prairie grasses under its shade, and then sacrifices itself and blows away.
— Antoine Predock
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There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of…
— Umberto Eco
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The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western…
— Toru Takemitsu
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Grasses are misty, The waters silent- A tranquil evening.
— Yosa Buson
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I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of…
— Claude Monet
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy…
— John Muir
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While drawing grasses I learn nothing 'about' grass, but wake up to the wonder that there is grass at all.
— Frederick Franck
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Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he had acute sensibility…
— Henry Adams
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There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in a green sea, the wind at nightfall…
— William Carlos Williams
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have…
— Oscar Wilde
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Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through the grasses of…
— Arthur Golden
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The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses,…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of being…
— Unknown Author
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