Pasture Quotes
More Pasture Quotes
Make a joyful noise unto the L, all ye lands. Serve the L with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the L he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Bible (Old Testament)— Psalms100:1-3.
An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.
Tennyson— 1832 Poems,'The Palace of Art', stanza 22, l.85-8.
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife...
josé saramago— Referring to his grandfather, Jerónimo Meirinho.
The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye.
joseph addison— Spectator, No. 444.
I’m going out to clean the pasture spring; I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water clear, I may): I sha’n’t be gone long. You come too.
robert frost— "The Pasture", st. 1 (1914)
The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed the mind as aware of itself as possible, since that awareness quickens the mental demand, which thus in turn wanders further and further for pasture. This action on the part of the mind practically amounts to a reaching out for the reasons of its interest, as only by its ascertaining them can the interest grow more various. This is the very education of our imaginative life.
Henry James— The New Novel (1914)
They were down on Kentron-Kosmon, an insignificant world. And yet, in the middle of Space-Port there (a cow pasture rather; it wasn't much of a spaceport) there was a nice plaque of electrum and on it was lettered: This is the Exact Center of the Universe .
r. a. lafferty— Ch. 4 (Space Chantey (1968))
If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather, Blown fields or flowerful closes, Green pasture or gray grief; If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf.
algernon charles swinburne— "A Match", line 1.
Who could believe that a wolf will pasture sheep.
— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007)
My sorrow when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be. She loves the bare, the withered tree, she walks the sodden pasture lane.
robert frost— My November Guest.
"A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of carcass dressed and hung up in a butchers stall passes as food."
— John Harvey Kellogg, quoted by Gail Davis in Vegetarian Food for Thought
