Grass on my mind...

While making hay, I recalled a quote I read somewhere about grass and Sampson...I found it and here it is.

"I have always had real affection for grass. It seems to stand for quietness and strength. I believe that the quietness and strength of grass should be, must be permanently a part of our agriculture if this nation is to have the strength it will need in the future. A countryside shorn and stripped of thick, green grass, it seems to me, is weakened just as Sampson was. An agriculture without grass loses a primary source of strength."

- Henry A. Wallace in 1940 (quoted in H.A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture 1992:5)

For an intersting read on grass based ag, see:
http://www.cias.wisc.edu/foodshed/pubsntools/grass.htm