Accustomed Quote by Martha Gellhorn

How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm wakeful August…

— Thom Gunn

“Though men in their hundreds of thousands had tried their hardest to disfigure that little corner of the earth where they had crowded themselves…

— Leo Tolstoy

When the grass was closely mown, Walking on the lawn alone, In the turf a hole I found, And hid a soldier underground. Spring…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Our backs hut from gathering them: how hard they were to find among the concealing leaves, the frosted deceiving grass.”

— Truman Capote

“The green painted concrete out in front of the house, which at first seemed like a novel way to save money on lawn-moving, was…

— Shaun Tan

She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some…

— Holly Black

I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my…

— Adam Beach

Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to…

— Martha Gellhorn

Summer grasses, All that remains Of soldiers' dreams

— Anonymous

A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it…

— Nelson Mandela

“There were oil wells everywhere. The soil had been abandoned to dust and lizards, and the backyard of every wind-blistered bungalow in town had…

— Katherine Dunn

What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?

— Antonio Machado