Singing Grass

Famous quotes containing the words singing and/or grass:

    “... to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.”
    —Sharon Olds (b. 1942)

    “The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)