Blades Of Grass Quotes - Page 5

• A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?

  Carl Sagan

  Miracle, Would Be, Mars

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.309, Ballantine Books

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• One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any knowledge of number. How must he have felt, then, to see crowds of people mingling in the streets? Before that day he would not have believed that so many people existed in all the world. And what wonder it must have been to discover flocks of birds, and piles of stones, leaves on trees and blades of grass! To suddenly realise that, his whole life long, he had been kept at arm’s length from multiplicity.

  Daniel Tammet

  Numbers, Years, Long

  Daniel Tammet (2012). “Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates Our Lives”, p.122, Hachette UK

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• The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade of grass growing up through a cracked street.

  John Lasseter

  Growing Up, Curls, Details

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• The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mother, Running, Night

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

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• That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.

  Pema Chodron

  Change, Fleeting, Firsts

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Two, Study, Pleasure

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.99, Library of America

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• That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything - every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate - is always changing, moment to moment.

  Pema Chodron

  Animal, Tree, Ordinary

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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