"A Song of the good green grass!..." - Quote by Walt Whitman

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you.”

“The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are.”

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”

“With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature.”

“And if I should live to beThe last leaf upon the treeIn the spring,Let them smile, as I do now,At the old forsaken boughWhere I cling.”

“The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled "a contemplative man's recreation," introducing him profitably to woods and water, so the fruit of the naturalist's observations is not in new genera or species, but in new contemplations still, and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.”

“I grew up very poor in rural Alabama.”

“Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up.”

“I haven't seen a tractor working all day. The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Farmers all look worse, but they feel better.”