Grass Quotes - Page 2

• Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

  Khalil Gibran

  Attitude, Volcanoes, Doe

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• Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth!

  Casper Van Dien

  Mother, Eye, Color

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• A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Educated

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

  Sam Mendes

  Black And White, Green, Want

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• The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

  Jello Biafra

  Rocks, Roots, Ethics

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• There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.

  John Calvin

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

  "The Value of Convenience: Genealogy of Technical Culture". Book by Thomas F. Tierney (p. 128), 1993.

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• If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

  Eleanora Duse

  Summer, Nature, Moving

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• The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.

  Roy Wood

  Play, Rehearsal, Brilliant

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• A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles. It is possible to refine the sense of time until an old shoe in the bunch grass or a pile of nineteenth century beer bottles in an abandoned mining town tolls in one's head like a hall clock.

  Loren Eiseley

  Eye, Beer, Science

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.68, Library of America

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• Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

  Cyril Connolly

  Lying, Autumn, Sun

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• I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!

  Walt Whitman

  Running, Depressing, Stars

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, XXXI”

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• I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.

  Walt Whitman

  Summer, Ease, Spears

  Walt Whitman, Clarence Merton Babcock (1969). “Leaves of grass: selected poetry and prose”

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• The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.

  Black Elk

  Country, Fall, Moon

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

  Lewis Thomas

  Cells, Resemblance Is, Whales

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• It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Light, Ideas, Done

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He burns, too, the purest of oil. ... It is sweet as early grass butter in April. He goes and hunts for his oil, so as to be sure of its freshness and genuineness, even as the traveler on the prairie hunts up his own supper of game.

  Herman Melville

  Sweet, Hunting, Games

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.294, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted to the wayward winds. First the Earth gave the shimmer of greenery And grasses to deck the hills; then over the meadows The flowering fields are bright with the color of springtime, And for all the trees that shoot into the air.

  Lucretius

  Wind, Light, Air

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• I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

  Ron Perlman

  Gratitude, Breathing, Being Thankful

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• Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

  Matsuo Basho

  Inspirational, Positive, Spring

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• Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Nature, Men

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.207, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.

  David F. Houston

  Yield, Land, Corn

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• A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following

  Duncan Sheik

  Real, Play, Roots

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• Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

  Karel Capek

  Soul, Robots, Literature

  "R.U.R". Play by Karel Capek, 1920.

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• I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.

  Lee Patrick Mastelotto

  Country, Eye, Blue

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• To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  God, Stars, Eye

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.97, Lulu.com

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