Famous quotes containing the words open and/or ground:
“What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
“O how can it be that the ground itself does not sicken?
How can you be alive you growths of spring?
How can you furnish health you blood of herbs, roots, orchards, grain?
Are they not continually putting distemper’d corpses within you?
Is not every continent work’d over and over with sour dead?”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)