Quote by Ronald Johnson

“A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass.”

— Richard Adams

“I've always longed to have a patch of personal wilderness. Of waist-high grass entwined with wildflowers through which I can prance; within which I…

— Sara Baume

“I drifted on through the midst of this passionate music and motion, across many a glen, from ridge to ridge; often halting in the…

— John Muir

“I stood transfixed, the silence ringing in my ears. From the field of wild grasses; cocksfoot, tufted hair, wild oat, tall fescue, reed canary…

— Nell Grey

“Off Spruce, there was a little known trail. A savage gulley wound through acreage of older residential homes that met up with Green Rock…

— Jazz Feylynn

“The invigorating energy in fresh-cut grass and cool, crisp chlorine filled Wendell’s nostrils as they lounged by the pool in Evan’s back yard. Looking…

— Jaime Buckley

“grasses, convinced of the hostility of the violet curtains and of the insolent indifference of a clock that chattered on at the top of…

— Marcel Proust

“If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one of them,…

— John Muir

“The weather is quite delicious. Yesterday, after writing to you, I strolled a little beyond the glade for an hour and a half and…

— Charles Darwin

“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

Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.

— William Shakespeare

When on the breath of Autumn's breeze, From pastures dry and brown, Goes floating, like an idle thought, The fair, white thistle-down; O, then…

— Mary Howitt