MORNING SENTINEL • June 23, 2021
I’ve spent several summers trying to learn how to identify the grasses in these parts, breaking out books, searching online and foraying in fields.But it might as well be hieroglyphics. There are just too many kinds of grass, with too many similarities of stem, flower and structure — 1,400 species north of Mexico and 11,000 or more worldwide. Man does not live by grass alone, but how many grains of corn, wheat and rice have been transformed into flesh, blood, brains and thoughts by how many human bodies? Whether grass turns into words by luck or by design, I don’t know. ~ Dana Wilde