Grass Quotes - Page 8

• But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

  Robert Frost

  Work, Heart, Together

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.214, Harvard University Press

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• The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own traveling brotherhood.

  Freya Stark

  Life, Change, Art

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.110, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Desire, Liberty

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• He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it, warming in his palm, thinking of all mysteries the world contained: layers of stone, concealed beneath the flesh of earth and grass; these dull rocks, with their glimmering hidden hearts.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Heart, Thinking

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.125, Penguin

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• I don't believe in taking much of a divot, especially with the longer irons. You want to barely comb the grass through impact. It's the only way to catch the ball on the second groove up from the bottom of the clubface. That's where you want to make contact: on the second groove.

  Moe Norman

  Believe, Golf, Impact

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• I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.

  Violette Leduc

  Summer, Journey, Fire

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• Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Song, Inspiration

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs”, p.84, Ignatius Press

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• I knew I could play well on the grass, but I really played so well today. I knew exactly what I had to play to beat her. I just did everything I could in the moment. I was very focused for every point. I knew that I had to go forward for every shot I was playing to push her back, and yeah, I did it.

  Petra Kvitova

  Play, Today, Moments

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• My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Lying, Intuition, Important

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• A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

  Michael Pollan

  Environment, Lawns, Totalitarian Regimes

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.48, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.

  John Heywood

  Horse

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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• Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Sunshine, Garden, Compassion

  Jerzy Kosinski (2007). “Being There”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new trees, strange flowers and different grasses every year. When the spring winds blow, they blow in the same way. In the same places the same dear blossoms lift up the same sweet faces, yet they never weary us. When it rains, it rains as it always has. Even so would the same tasks which fill our daily lives put on new meanings if we wrought them in the spirit of renewal from within--a spirit of growth and beauty.

  Helen Keller

  Sweet, Spring, Rain

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.19, American Foundation for the Blind

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• My guess is that most Australians today would vote for Babe. A piglet who dreams of being a statesmanlike sheepdog. Who merely by asking politely, can lead the electorate two by two through the gate where the grass is always greener.

  Wendy Harmer

  Dream, Women, Two

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• Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Volcanoes, Enthusiasm, Hesitation

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• That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Kindness, Sacrifice, Principles

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2014). “Baptismal Regeneration”, p.17, Curiosmith

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• A delicate fabric of bird song
  Floats in the air,
  The smell of wet wild earth
  Is everywhere.
  Oh I must pass nothing by
  Without loving it much,
  The raindrop try with my lips,
  The grass with my touch;
  For how can I be sure
  I shall see again
  The world on the first of May
  Shining after the rain?

  Sara Teasdale

  Song, Spring, Rain

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Life, Witty, Bad Day

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older.

  Li Bai

  Hurt, Butterfly, Garden

  Ezra Pound, Bai Li (1917). “Lustra of Ezra Pound, with Earlier Poems”

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• If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from tree to tree, Never finding the fruit - From life to life, Never finding peace. If you are filled with desire Your sorrows swell Like the grass after the rain. But if you subdue desire Your sorrows shall fall from you Like drops of water from a lotus flower.

  Gautama Buddha

  Rain, Flower, Fall

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• Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past.

  Albert Theodore Powers

  Baseball, Father, Sunshine

  Albert Theodore Powers (2003). “The Business of Baseball”, p.8, McFarland

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• To rid the grass of weed, to get
  The whole root,
  Thick, tangled, takes a strong mind
  
  And desire - to make clean, make pure.
  The weed, tough
  As the rock it leaps against,
  
  Unless plucked to the last
  Live fiber
  Will plunge up through dark again.
  
  The weed also has the desire
  To make clean,
  Make pure, there against the rock.

  Lucien Stryk

  Weed, Strong, Dark

  Susan Porterfield, Lucien Stryk (1993). “Zen, poetry, the art of Lucien Stryk”, Swallow Pr

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• The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail. Life as a human being is hard to sustain--as hard as it is for the dew to remain on the grass. But it is better to live a single day with honor than to live to 120 and die in disgrace.

  Gautama Buddha

  Numbers, Honor, Dew

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• I think of game development as a clown car moving through tall grass.

  Ken Rolston

  Moving, Thinking, Games

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• Our shipment of mowers was lost at sea and while we waited, winter descended and covered our green lawns with snow. That taught me a key lesson, the importance of timing. The shipping company lost the lawnmowers! By the time they showed up no one wanted them, as you can't cut grass when it's covered with snow.

  Terry Matthews

  Mistake, Cutting, Winter

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