Humans have fruit and grain-bearing vegetation, Animals have the herbiage and the grasses.

人类有果实和产谷的植物，动物有树木和草叶。

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Well enough, I guess, of that; although if you want to understand the optimism of that time just dip into Leaves of Grass, read Whitman's Old Pioneers.

我猜这足以驱使他写出这样的作品,但如果你想了解那个时代的乐观主义,只需去翻阅《草叶集》,读读惠特曼的《啊,拓荒者》吧

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After all, a blade of grass is alive, and I presume that even fans of the, what we might call valuable container theories, don't think that, " "Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if-- " as long as I was alive in the way that a blade of grass is alive."

毕竟，一片草叶也是活着的，我觉得就算是，有价值容器理论的粉丝们，也不会认为，“活着不是很棒吗-,“即便是像一片草叶那样活着“

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