If we had a keen vision and feeling it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrels heart beat and we should die of the roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.
And he gave it for his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars.
If we had a keen vision and feeling it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrels heart beat and we should die of the roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.
The grass will grow in the streets of a hundred cities.
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all.
And he gave it for his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.
Knowing trees I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass I can appreciate persistence.
Our way is not soft grass its a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward forward toward the sun.
Your ass is grass.