Singing Grass

Famous quotes containing the words singing and/or grass:

    “Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
    The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of
    young fellows, robust, friendly,
    Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle—absolute busyness—then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy—and without consciousness.”
    —Günther Grass (b. 1927)