{"quotes":[{"text":"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.","author":"Helen Keller","tags":["welcome","me","grass "],"id":13210,"author_id":"Helen+Keller"},{"text":"A child said What is the grass? Fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt, Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose? Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation. Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic, And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white, Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same. And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. Tenderly will I use you curling grass, It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men, It may be if I had known them I would have loved them, It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps, And here you are the mothers' laps. This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers, Darker than the colorless beards of old men, Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths. O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues, And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for nothing. ...What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.","author":"Walt Whitman","tags":["death","grass","graves","life"],"id":24211,"author_id":"Walt+Whitman"},{"text":"And when I fall in love,” I began, 'I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I will have the best of both worlds, reality firmly under our feet, while we have our heads in the clouds with all our illusions still intact. And the purple grass will grow all around, high enough to reach our eyes.","author":"V.C. Andrews","tags":["build","clouds","dreamers","dreaming","dreams","fall-in-love","feet","firm","grass","grounded","heads","idealists","ideals","illusions","love","lover","mountain","purple","realist","reality","sky","worlds"],"id":24862,"author_id":"V.C.+Andrews"},{"text":"Just fancy! One can hear and see the grass growing,' thought Levin, as he noticed wet slate-coloured aspen leaf move close to the point of a blade of grass.","author":"Leo Tolstoy","tags":["grass","growth","nature","spring"],"id":25659,"author_id":"Leo+Tolstoy"},{"text":"And now it [grass] seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves, Tenderly will I use you curling grass,It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men, It may be if I had known them I would have loved them, It may be you from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mother's laps,  And here you are the mothers'. ","author":"Walt Whitman","tags":["goodness","grass","graves","love-of-nature","nature","respect"],"id":38556,"author_id":"Walt+Whitman"},{"text":"The grass is always greener on the other side of personal extinction.","author":"James S.A. Corey","tags":["death","grass","optimism","personal-extinction"],"id":61013,"author_id":"James+S.A.+Corey"},{"text":"Yellow is the colour of the sun.Blue is the colour of the sky.Green is the colour of grass.Brown is the colour of your eyes.Black is the colour of the night.Orange is the colour of truth.Red is the colour of love.And...Rainbow is the colour of you.","author":"Anthony T. Hincks","tags":["black","brown","color","colour","eyes","grass","green","love","night","orange","philosophy","rainbow","red","sun","yellow","you"],"id":84761,"author_id":"Anthony+T.+Hincks"},{"text":"I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.","author":"Jilly Cooper","tags":["love","long","grass "],"id":85893,"author_id":"Jilly+Cooper"},{"text":"I am clumsy, drop glasses and get drunk on Monday afternoons. I read Seneca and can recite Shakespeare by heart, but I mess up the laundry, don’t answer my phone and blame the world when something goes wrong. I think I have a dream, but most of the days I’m still sleeping. The grass is cut. It smells like strawberries. Today I finished four books and cleaned my drawers. Do you believe in a God? Can I tell you about Icarus? How he flew too close to the sun?I want to make coming home your favourite part of the day. I want to leave tiny little words lingering in your mind, on nights when you’re far away and can’t sleep. I want to make everything around us beautiful; make small things mean a little more. Make you feel a little more. A little better, a little lighter. The coffee is warm, this cup is yours. I want to be someone you can’t live without.I want to be someone you can’t live without.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["afternoon","beautiful","believe","blame","books","can-t-sleep","clean","close-to-the-sun","clumsy","coffee","coming-home","creative-writing","cut-grass","drawers","dream","drinking","drunk","far-away","glass","grass","heart","home","icarus","laundry","light-lighter","love","mess","mind","monday","phone","poem","poetry","poets","prose","prose-poetry","reading","seneca","shakespeare","sleeping","sun","today","warm","world","writers","writing","wrong"],"id":89019,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"Our heavenly Father is great in mercy,He feeds and clothes us everyday, We will worship and humbly learn from himFor our Lord clothes the grass of the field.","author":"Brother Yun","tags":["brother-yun","father","grass","lord","lyrics","mercy","provider","song"],"id":94533,"author_id":"Brother+Yun"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":58,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}