Isn’t that exhilarating, the land shouting with grass? And due to successive years of dousing rain, it feels lush and burstingly, verdantly abundant.  Â
There would be five or six wet and wonderful years when there might be nineteen to twenty-five inches of rain, and the land would shout with grass.
Source: John Steinbeck, East of Eden (London: Penguin Classics, 2000), p. 9
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