Change Quote by Matsuo Bashō

A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.

— Matsuo Basho

“Not forever can one enjoy stillness and peace. But misfortune and obstruction are not final. When the grass has been burnt by the fire…

— Wisdom from the Mongolian Steppe

“That is how a farmer walks across the soil in spring--and later, in summer, the traces of his steps are obscured by the billowing…

— Joseph Roth

“And when the spring breezes blow up the valley; when the spring sun shines on last year's withered grass on the river banks; and…

— Halldor Laxness

“All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind. Sometimes we saw little towns or…

— Bram Stoker

“The rain had ripened all the country around and the roadside grass was luminous and green from the run-off and flowers were in bloom…

— Cormac McCarthy

“This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has come; a screaming line…

— John Buchan

“On all sides, as far as the eye could reach, rose the grass-covered heaps marking the site of ancient habitations. The great tide of…

— Austen Henry Layard

“As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass…

— Willa Cather

“That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain… .”

— Ray Bradbury

“there was yet, it then seemed to me, many a pleasant haven in store; and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass…

— Herman Melville

“As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is…

— Anonymous