A selection of quotes and proverbs about the grass that is always greener.
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A cat in grass is a tiger in the jungle.
Bare feet on the grass comfort the spirit and connect the body to the earth all at once!Maximillian Degenerez
Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.William Jennings Bryan
Don't allow the grass to grow on the path of friendship.
Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow -- grow!'Talmud
Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.Brian Ingalls
Let the grass grow under one's feet.Wait before doing something or do something slowly.
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.John Steinbeck
Mushroom is not bread, berry is not grass.
Now Galadriel rose from the grass, and taking a cup from one of her maidens she filled it with white mead and gave it to Celeborn.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring
Once I dreamt of a form of poetry created by the sound of feet walking in the grass.Cecilia Vicuna
The cattle is as good as the pasture in which it grazes.
The grass is always greener on the other side.
The grass was greenerPink Floyd
The light was brighter
With friends surrounded
The nights of wonder
Source: High Hopes Lyrics
The trees and the grasses and all things growing or living in the land belong each to themselves.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring
Quoted: Goldberry
Then God said, 'Let the land burst forth with every sort of grass and seed-bearing plant. And let there be trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. The seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came.' And so it was. The land was filled with seed-bearing plants and trees, and their seeds produced plants and trees of like kind. And God saw that it was good.Bible
Source: Genesis 1:11-12
When dew is on the grass, rain will never come to pass.
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.
Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.Jonathan Swift
You can't reap a field of grass one blade at a time.Ken Follett
Source: World Without End
