Blades Of Grass Quotes

• There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.

  John Calvin

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

  "The Value of Convenience: Genealogy of Technical Culture". Book by Thomas F. Tierney (p. 128), 1993.

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• The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

  Henry Miller

  Motivational, Beauty, Gratitude

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• Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Way, Tough, Blades

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.192, Open Road Media

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• If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

  Eleanora Duse

  Summer, Nature, Moving

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• Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Nature, Laughter

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• The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Running, Nature, Flower

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.38, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." - The Talmud

  Sapphire

  Angel, Blades, Grass

  Sapphire (1996). “Push: A Novel”, Vintage

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• I am humility, nothing more and nothing less. I am one blade of grass in a sea of grass. I am one wave in an endless ocean of waves. I am one glowing star in a galaxy of stars.

  Frederick Lenz

  Stars, Ocean, Humility

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• It is my unmistakable belief that not a blade of grass moves but by the divine will.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Moving, Divine Will

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  God, Stars, Eye

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.97, Lulu.com

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• He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.

  Ben Hecht

  Summer, Love Life, June

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• Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth.

  Haruki Murakami

  Rain, Unique, Roots

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1997.

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• I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in nature, more beautiful and wonderful to me than I had ever found it yet. This was my first gain from my illness. How little I had lost, when the wide world was so full of delight for me.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Flower, Clouds

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.353

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• If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies a single blade of grass.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wise, Art, Intelligent

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.

  Elias Hicks

  Blades, Grass

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• Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Nature, Men

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.207, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am completely filled with the thought of you. Don't lay broken glass on my path I will crush it into dust. I am nothing, just a mirror in the palm of your hand, reflecting your kindness, your sadness, your anger. If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence revives my withered heart. You are the candle that lights the whole world and I am an empty vessel for your light. Rumi - "Hidden Music

  Rumi

  Crush, Kindness, Flower

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• How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.

  John Kremer

  Blades, Grass, Thousand

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• I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Believe, Flower, Cells

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• And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Agriculture, Race

  Gulliver's Travels "A Voyage to Brobdingnag" ch. 7 (1726)

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• Man only remains hypnotised with the false idea of an ego. When this ghost is off from us, all dreams vanish, and then it is found that the one Self only exists from the highest Being to a blade of grass.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Men, Self

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3047, Manonmani Publishers

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• Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.

  Anne Lamott

  Falling In Love, Feet, People

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• I implicitly believe in the truth of the saying that not a blade of grass moves but by His will. He will save it (my life) if He needs it for further service in this body. None can save it against His will.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Believe, Moving

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.221, Oxford University Press

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• In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Nature, Stars, Simple

  Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.44, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Nature, Animal, Path

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