There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing — T. S. Eliot
Giddy grasshopper Take care...do not leap and crush These pearls of dewdrop — Kobayashi Issa
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. — Henry Miller
Jolly boating weather,
And a hay harvest breeze,
Blade on the feather,
Shade off the trees. — William Johnson Cory
Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love. — Theodore Roethke
Green grass breaks through snow, Artemis pleads for my help, I am so cool. — Rick Riordan
Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget. — Christina Rossetti
All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life; dry and brittle in death. — Lao Tzu
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home — Sayings
We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render. — Edgar Fawcett
I'm not irreplaceable ... I'm nothing but grass growing on the ground; when the grass dies, another one replaces it. — Chico Xavier
Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom golden in the green grass, this life can be. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Crowds of bees are giddy with clover
Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet,
Crowds of larks at their matins hang over,
Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet. — Jean Ingelow
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. — English Proverbs
Short Blades Of Grass Quotes
If the grass looks greener on the other side, it is probably astroturf. — Nicky Gumbel
Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers. — Dan Quisenberry
April's air stirs in Willow-leaves...a butterfly Floats and balances — Matsuo Basho
The dandelion's pallid tube
Astonishes the grass,
And winter instantly becomes
An infinite alas. — Emily Dickinson
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. — Dogen
Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart. — Russell Page
Buttercups, bright eyed and bold, hold their chalices of gold to catch the sunshine and the dew. — Julia Caroline Dorr
No matter the economy of the jungle, the lion will never eat grass.
What Is Blades Of Grass Quotes
A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being? — Carl Sagan
If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies a single blade of grass. — Vincent Van Gogh
Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it. — Natalie Goldberg
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself strikes him as commonplace, when in truth a blade of grass or a neuron in the brain is a greater miracle. — Sydney J. Harris
Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and die, but reproduces something. — Thomas Chalmers
Leaves Of Grass Quotes
Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour. — Walt Whitman
We were together. I forget the rest. — Walt Whitman
Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land. — Walt Whitman
The grass isn't greener on the other side. It's greener where you water it.
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell. — Walt Whitman
Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return — Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof. — Walt Whitman
The Grass is greener where you water it
I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. — Walt Whitman
I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell — Walt Whitman
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
NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself. — Walt Whitman
I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you. — Rabindranath Tagore
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. — Eleonora Duse
The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow! Grow!" ... I believe that above the entire human race is one super-angel, crying "Evolve! Evolve!" — Steven Pressfield
Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lo and behold! God made this
starry wold,
The maggot and the mold; lo and
behold!
He taught the grass contentment
blade by blade,
The sanctity of sameness in a shade. — Nathalia Crane
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. — Rabindranath Tagore
It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing as if he would rather die of exhaustion than lose, he inspired all around him. — Alex Ferguson
If we knew that tonight we were going to go blind, we would take a long, last real look at every blade of grass, every cloud formation, every speck of dust, every rainbow, raindrop-everything. — Pema Chodron
Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises. — Anne Lamott
If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower
I will pitch my tent in your shadow.
Only your presence revives my withered heart.
You are the candle that lights the whole world
and I am an empty vessel for your light. — Rumi
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by. — Mahmoud Darwish
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge. — Thomas A. Edison
Nevertheless, just as I believe that the Book of Scripture illumines the pathway to God, so I believe that the Book of Nature, with its astonishing details-the blade of grass, the Conus cedonulli, or the resonance levels of the carbon atom-also suggest a God of purpose and a God of design. And I think my belief makes me no less a scientist. — Owen Gingerich
The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day. — Rabindranath Tagore
Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad — Sivananda
A need to concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower. — Arvo Part
.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One. — Meister Eckhart
Where innocent bright-eyes daisies are With blades of grass between, Each daisy stands up like a star Out of a sky of green. — Christina Rossetti
Tradition is like the tether which prevents an animal from getting a blade of grass beyond the length of that tether — E. W. Bullinger
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
We're just blades of grass, and when we go, we go, we never come back; one life . . . maybe that's true. But I tend to believe that this is not all there is. Because my life has been like a shadow of something deeper. And I've experienced that many times. — Anthony Hopkins
Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." - The Talmud — Sapphire
In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight. — Rabindranath Tagore
HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass. — Alice Walker
I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process. — Eckhart Tolle
I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them.... I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass. — C. S. Lewis
It is true there is a scent in the desert, though there may be no flower or tree or blade of grass within miles. It is the essence of the untrodden, untarnished earth herself! — Rosita Forbes
Regard this fleeting world like this:
Like stars fading and vanishing at dawn,
like bubbles on a fast-moving stream,
like morning dewdrops evaporating on blades of grass,
like a candle flickering in a strong wind...
echoes, mirages, and phantoms, hallucinations,
and like a dream. — Buddha
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
The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass. — Elias Hicks
Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand. — Helen Keller
Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out. — Minor White
A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons. — Honore de Balzac
You don't 'have' a life, you 'are' life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy. — Eckhart Tolle
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
You and I are just like a blade of grass sitting here; we are going to wither and die. "But the word of the Lord endures forever" — Adrian Rogers
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
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass. — Ben Hecht
The essence of every form is the deathless. Even the essence of a blade of grass is the deathless. And that's why the world of form is sacred. — Eckhart Tolle
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