"A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another."
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"There's a snake hidden in the grass."
"A narrow Fellow in the Grass Occasionally rides"
"Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again."
"The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives"
"You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you."
"The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them."
"I don't want to be just another blade of grass."
"Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green."
"Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain."
"Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects."
"And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass."
"Though no one had been buried here for almost thirty years, the grass was mown by yours truly. I felt a tidy graveyard made a happy graveyard."
"The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant."