Grasses Quotes

57 Grasses quotes by 49 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
Grasses are misty, The waters silent- A tranquil evening. — Yosa Buson
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
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
While drawing grasses I learn nothing 'about' grass, but wake up to the wonder that there is grass at all. — Frederick Franck
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
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
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
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
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
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
Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals… — Karen White
What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak. — Ian Mcewan
Lady Katsa, is it?" "Yes, Lord Prince." "I've heard you have one eye green as the Middluns grasses, and the other eye blue as the… — Kristin Cashore
Summer grasses, All that remains Of soldiers' dreams — Matsuo Basho
There had been a popular joke on Freedom, started by a man named Calder. Looking down from space, he had said, the dominant life forms… — Larry Niven
I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the… — John Steinbeck
But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer. And looking around, I noticed the other small trees and… — Ruskin Bond
Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean… — Michael Ondaatje
Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over. — Hayao Miyazaki
This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like… — Sara Teasdale

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