Grass Quotes - Page 24

• In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear.

  Dogen

  Winter, White, Use

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• But the healing of the mind is something totally different. That healing gradually takes place if you are with nature, with that orange on the tree, and the blade of grass that pushes through the cement, and the hills covered, hidden, by the clouds.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Healing, Clouds, Orange

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• Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Heart, Rocks

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6634, Delphi Classics

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• It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.

  Terry Goodkind

  Sheep, Mind, Doe

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Stone Of Tears”, p.720, Head of Zeus

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• Golf is no longer a game of hitting the ball, finding it, and hitting it again. There is wind to be measured, whether that means tossing blades of grass in the air or studying the gentle movement of 60-foot high branches. There are caddie conferences for even the most routine shots. There are sports psychologists who tell players not to hit until they're ready.

  Doug Ferguson

  Sports, Mean, Golf

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• Sap which mounts, and flowers which thrust,
  Your childhood is a bower:
  Let my fingers wander in the moss
  Where glows the rosebud
  Let me among the clean grasses
  Drink the drops of dew
  Which sprinkle the tender flower

  Paul Verlaine

  Flower, June, Childhood

  Paul Verlaine (1948). “Forty Poems”

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• Now is the month of Maying, When merry lads are playing. Fa la la... Each with his bonny lass, upon the greeny grass. Fa la la... The Spring clad all in gladness, Doth laugh at winter's sadness. Fa la la.

  Thomas Morley

  Spring, Sadness, Winter

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• Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure;
  And spring comes green again to trees and grasses
  Where petals have been shed like tears
  And lonely birds have sung their grief.
  ...After the war-fires of three months,
  One message from home is worth a ton of gold.
  ...I stroke my white hair. It has grown too thin
  To hold the hairpins any more.

  Du Fu

  Country, Lonely, Spring

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• When loud by landside streamlets gush,
  And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush,
  With sun on the meadows
  And songs in the shadows
  Comes again to me
  The gift of the tongues of the lea,
  The gift of the tongues of meadows.
  So when the earth is alive with gods,
  And the lusty ploughman breaks the sod,
  And the grass sings in the meadows,
  And the flowers smile in the shadows,
  Sits my heart at ease,
  Hearing the song of the leas,
  Singing the songs of the meadows.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Song, Flower, Heart

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.3765, Delphi Classics

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• Yes, I will spend the livelong day
  With Nature in this month of May;
  And sit beneath the trees, and share
  My bread with birds whose homes are there;
  While cows lie down to eat, and sheep
  Stand to their necks in grass so deep;
  While birds do sing with all their might,
  As though they felt the earth in flight.

  W. H. Davies

  Lying, Home, Sheep

  William Henry Davies, “In May”

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• Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of ‘Green?’ How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?

  Stan Brakhage

  Baby, Adventure, Eye

  Philip Taaffe, Stan Brakhage (1998). “Philip Taaffe: composite nature : a conversation with Stan Brakhage”, Blumarts

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• Creation isn't forcing or commanding something into existence. It's more of a rolling over, a good stretch, blissing out, lying on the grass watching the flowers blowing in the breeze or the clouds floating by.

  Esther Hicks

  Lying, Flower, Clouds

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• You have to know what's happening in the locker rooms, you have to know what's happening at the grass-roots level. That's the best way to work.

  Jacques Rogge

  Roots, Levels, Lockers

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• The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Bird, Fruit, Flight

  Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”

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• I'm not irreplaceable ... I'm nothing but grass growing on the ground; when the grass dies, another one replaces it.

  Chico Xavier

  Growing, Irreplaceable, Dies

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• I have need of the sky,
  I have business with the grass;
  I will up and get me away where the hawk is wheeling
  Lone and high,
  And the slow clouds go by.
  I will get me away to the waters that glass
  The clouds as they pass.
  I will get me away to the woods.

  Richard Hovey

  Clouds, Glasses, Sky

  Richard Hovey (1962). “Dartmouth Lyrics”, Dartmouth College

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• Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Drinking, Commitment, Dope

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• Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses fall. . . .

  Andrew Marvell

  Country, War, Fall

  Andrew Marvell, Nigel Smith (2007). “The Poems of Andrew Marvell”, p.142, Pearson Education

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• There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass

  Charles Kuralt

  Wind, Sorrow, Melancholy

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• By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on quilts, on the grass in a summer evening, among the sounds of the night. May God bless my people, my uncle, my aunt, my mother, my good father, oh, remember them kindly in their time of trouble; and in the hour of their taking away.

  James Agee

  Summer, Mother, Quilts

  James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.15, Penguin

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• I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse.
  I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea.
  You may bury my body in Sussex grass,
  You may bury my tongue at Champmedy.
  I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass.
  Bury my heart at Wounded Knee

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Lying, Heart, Body

  "American Names" l. 30 (1927)

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• It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.

  Augusto Boal

  Forbidden, Walks

  "Games for Actors and non-Actors". Book by Augusto Boal, p. xxvi, 1992.

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• I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off.

  Joel Salatin

  Favors, Corn, Feds

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• The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering from the bent tip of a grass blade, looking for a route.

  Janet Burroway

  Book, Writing, Spinning

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• Fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.

  Lloyd Bentsen

  Texas, Roots, Differences

  "Astroturf Lobbying Organizations: Do Fake Grassroots Need Real Regulation" by Henry Young, "Illinois Business Law Journal", November 2, 2009.

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