To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

—Helen Keller

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About Helen Keller

Portrait of Helen Keller

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American deafblind author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer.

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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

—Helen Keller

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding; I want
the understanding which bringeth peace.

—Helen Keller

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What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

—Helen Keller

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

—Helen Keller

But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

—Helen Keller

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The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.

—Katherine Mansfield

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If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

—Bill Watterson

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The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

—Walt Whitman

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Have patience! In time, even grass becomes milk.

—Charan Singh

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