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Grasses are misty, The waters silent- A tranquil evening. -- Yosa Buson
When the grass was closely mown, Walking on the lawn alone, In the turf a hole I found, And hid a soldier underground. Spring and daisies came apace; Grasses hide my hiding place; Grasses run like a green sea O'er the lawn up to my knee. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
The legendary tumbleweed is really a nurse crop that protects the growth of prairie grasses under its shade, and then it sacrifices itself and blows away. -- Antoine Predock
The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field. -- Toru Takemitsu
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
My best friend was Aboriginal. She taught me about 'bush tucker' - the food of the land, the different things you could eat if you got lost in the bush, like grasses and berries. There's this tree called the billygoat plum - the fruit is quite nice. -- Isabel Lucas
I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it. -- Pierre Loti
I doubt very much that the chief executives of any of the Fortune 500 corporations can name five edible plants, five native grasses, or five migratory birds within walking distance of their homes, or name the soil series upon which their house sits. And I would contend that if you don't know where you are, you are in fact nowhere at all. -- Paul Hawken
Summer grasses, All that remains Of soldiers' dreams -- Matsuo Basho
Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming. -- Dogen
Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses. -- Anne Sexton
...think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees. -- Michael Pollan
the clear water the color of deeply steeped tea, surrounded by cattails and gracile grasses. -- Lauren Slater
...the clear water the color of deeply steeped tea, surrounded by cattails and gracile grasses. -- Lauren Slater
Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses -- Gary Snyder
Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees. -- F. S Flint
The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America. -- J. Frank Dobie
While drawing grasses I learn nothing 'about' grass, but wake up to the wonder that there is grass at all. -- Frederick Franck
The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another. -- Henry David Thoreau
I go forth to seek To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak. -- Anna Akhmatova
There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses fall. . . . -- Andrew Marvell
What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak. -- Ian Mcewan
There are myriads of forms and hundreds of grasses throughout the entire earth, yet each grass and each form itself is the entire earth. -- Dogen
Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World. -- Black Elk
Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup. -- Dogen
Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over. -- Hayao Miyazaki
The legendary tumbleweed is really a nurse crop that protects the growth of prairie grasses under its shade, and then sacrifices itself and blows away. -- Antoine Predock
I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing! -- Claude Monet
We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is. -- William Vogt
The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves. -- Terry Tempest Williams
Images provide a knowledge that we can interiorize rather than 'apply,' can take to that place in ourselves where there is water and where reeds and grasses grow... -- Christine Downing
But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best. -- Peter Watts
Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves. -- Matsuo Basho
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings. -- John Muir

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