"A child said What is the grass?..." - Quote by Walt Whitman

“O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice!O harvest of my lands! O boundless summer growths!O lavish, brown, parturient earth! O infinite, teeming womb!A verse to seek, to see, to narrate thee.”

“Now understand me well. It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.”

“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”

“There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.”

“... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!”

“Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases.”

“The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.”

“My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.”

“I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.”