Grass/agriculture

Famous quotes containing the words grass and/or agriculture:

“Loud are the thunder drums
In the tents of the mountains.”
—Unknown. The Grass on the Mountain (l. 6–7)

“But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)