“Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele.”
Tom Trupenie, Act IV, sc. v.
Ralph Roister Doister (c. 1553)
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Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Brown Eyed Girl
Song lyrics, Blowin' Your Mind! (1967)
“the grasses
whisper
"This
is
my
Body"”
Frederick Franck (1909–2006) Dutch painter
Source: Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985), p. 98
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet
"I Knew a Woman," ll. 22-28
Words for the Wind (1958)
Context: Let seed be grass, and grass turn into hay:
I'm martyr to a motion not my own;
What's freedom for? To know eternity.
I swear she cast a shadow white as stone.
But who would count eternity in days?
These old bones live to learn her wanton ways:
(I measure time by how a body sways.)
“Green grass breaks through snow,
Artemis pleads for my help,
I am so cool.”
Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse
Source: The Titan's Curse
“I am able to approach the Buddhas barefoot and undisturbed, my feet in wet grass, wet sand.”
Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author
The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton (1975) Part One : Ceylon / November 29 - December 6.
Context: I am able to approach the Buddhas barefoot and undisturbed, my feet in wet grass, wet sand. Then the silence of the extraordinary faces. The great smiles. Huge and yet subtle. Filled with every possibility, questioning nothing, knowing everything, rejecting nothing, the peace not of emotional resignation but of Madhyamika, of sunyata, that has seen through every question without trying to discredit anyone or anything — without refutation — without establishing some other argument. For the doctrinaire, the mind that needs well-established positions, such peace, such silence, can be frightening.
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
