Dirt Quote by Wendell Berry Download Open image “Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.” — Wendell Berry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dirt Dream Dreams Grass Pavement
The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Ever since this day I have dreamt sometimes... I, a street rat in my soul, dream even now... that if it were possible to… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
Still, the vivid green of the grass-where the grass is actually managing to assert itself through the dirt-seems out of place. This seems like… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the… — Harryette Mullen Copy Share Image
“There are potholes on the road less traveled. Some deep, some not so deep, some you dig yourself. Most are filled with mud. Many… — Ray Blackston Copy Share Image
Next time you see an unblemished expanse of grass, think about the chemicals that probably got dumped in your vicinity to create it. Are… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy are the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When man of slender visits you / Nothing on earth that one can do / In well he’ll hide, or watery hole / And… — Jack Goldstein Copy Share Image
“We have grace of strength to work, to clear our cities of any dirt.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm excited for the fans… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
I spent all my time in the clouds or the dirt and that is why I think I’m successful — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I dish the dirt out, and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it? In 20 years,… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Truthfully, I love being in the jungle. I love it when the make-up artists come to set, they come equipped with dirt and sweat.… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Texas is a hell hole, man. Dirt, cactus, lizards, dirt, cactus, the Bush family. — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
