All that remains Quote by Matsuo Basho

Summer grasses, All that remains Of soldiers' dreams

— Anonymous

Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers' imperial dreams.

— Matsuo Basho

We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the…

— Anonymous

“The thousand thousand grasses, dry now in the late-summer heat, bristle like the brittle pages of a thousand ancient books being turned by invisible…

— Robert Goolrick

By night we lingered on the lawn, For underfoot the herb was dry; And genial warmth; and o'er the sky The silvery haze of…

— Alfred Tennyson

Today I have so much to do: I must kill memory once and for all, I must turn my soul to stone, I must…

— Anna Akhmatova

Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again…

— John James Ingalls

And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass.

— Henry David Thoreau

And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.

— Pierre Loti

“It was that time of the year, the turning-point of summer, when the crops of the present year are a certainty, when one begins…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The unchecked growth of many summers, rising and declining, has lessened the penetration of the light in a way one rarely sees in farmland…

— J.A. Baker

Grass grows at last above all graves.

— Julia Caroline Dorr