Grass Pickerel

Famous quotes containing the words grass and/or pickerel:

“in the grass near you
your scions are uprising,
fernlike, trustful.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be a good subject for Christianity. The New Testament may be a choice book to him on some, but not on all or most of his days. He will rather go a-fishing in his leisure hours. The Apostles, though they were fishers too, were of the solemn race of sea-fishers, and never trolled for pickerel on inland streams.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)