“ I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf. ”
- Joe Namath- Copy
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“ Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it, is the scholastic air any advantage? ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill. ”
- Anna Jameson- Copy
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“ How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows;raining off the sour festering water, gradually from the root of the remotest grass-blade; making, instead of pestilential swamp, a green fruitful meadow with its clear-flowing stream… ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ At some moment in September when there is an intimation of fall - perhaps a certain slant of light across the browning meadow in the hush of a late afternoon when the wind from the sea has suddenly died-I think of the fiercely independent ruffed grouse, a game bird without peer. ”
- Nelson Bryant- Copy
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“ Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced… ”
- Archibald MacLeish- Copy
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“ We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them. On the one side, we over intellectualize everything; on the other hand, we are over-mechanized. We can understand the danger of the atomic bomb, but the danger of our misunderstanding the meaning of life is much more serious. ”
- Edward Steichen- Copy
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“ Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set. ”
- Leonidas of Tarentum- Copy
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“ Manners are the happy way of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love — now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dewdrops which give such depth to the morning meadows. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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