Celebrate Quote by William Cowper

“And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves." "So grass is death too-it grows out of our buried bodies. The…

— John Green

We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to…

— John Evelyn

“All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but…

— Zondervan Publishing

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

— Thomas Browne

“... the All is everywhere, and anywhere may become the seat of power. Any blade of grass may assume, in myth, the figure of…

— Joseph Campbell

That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great…

— William C. Bryant

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

— John Sterling

Glory be to God for dappled things- For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“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

Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses

— Anne Sexton

Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.

— Karl Shapiro

Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings. Men say…

— John Ruskin