Famous quotes containing the words wild and/or grasses:
“This wild star—it is now three centuries since, with clasped hands, and with streaming eyes,... I spoke it ... into birth.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“The white man’s mullein soon reigned in Indian corn-fields, and sweet-scented English grasses clothed the new soil. Where, then, could the red man set his foot?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)