Grass Quote by Jean Toomer Download Open image “O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree, So scant of grass, so profligate of pines,” — Jean Toomer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Grass Gum Land Red Soil Sweet Tree Trees
It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“On rich soils only abundant harvests of produce for ordinary consumption grow. On poor soils the most misshapen trees, and flowers of the rarest,… — Roger Giroux Copy Share Image
We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it… — William Vogt Copy Share Image
There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“In vain we look for a single vigorously developed root, for a spot of fertile and healthy soil: everywhere there is dust and sand;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The greenest grass he’d ever seen—a forest of long, soft blades—ran down to the bank. The water was clear and swift as it flowed… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“During his time as a graduate student, he had done data collection for a study of Pinus contorata. Of all the varieties of pine… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
For a hundred and fifty years, in the pasture of dead horses, roots of pine trees pushed through the pale curves of your ribs,… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
The wood of any tree growing anywhere records fairly faithfully the oxygen and hydrogen chemistry of the water the plant has access to through… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
“Happy, Muriel? No, not happy. Your aim is wrong. There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness,… — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence. — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
Dripping rain like golden honey- And the sweet earth flying from the thunder — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
“Dusk, suggesting the almost imperceptible posession of giant trees, settled with a purple haze about the cane. I felt strange, as I always do… — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
“Her Lips Are Copper Wire” whisper of yellow globes gleaming on lamp posts that sway like bootleg licker drinkers in the fog and let… — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist. — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
I can play on grass - when I won Junior Wimbledon, that was an unbelievable feeling, I could not believe that I had won… — Grigor Dimitrov Copy Share Image
From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me. — Tracy Lawrence Copy Share Image
After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
My featherbed is deep and soft, and there I’ll lay you down, I’ll dress you all in yellow silk and on your head a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them;… — Toru Takemitsu Copy Share Image
When you're winning the grass is greener, the cigars are sweeter and the girls are better looking! — Mark Grace Copy Share Image
I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk… — Al McGuire Copy Share Image
