Reed (plant)

Where there are no reeds, it is the worst of all poverty.

Reed is a common name for several tall, grass-like plants of wetlands.

Quotes

• Nance sees into the heart of the Land as if it were a split reed.
  • Anonymous, A hymn to Nanshe, late 3rd millennium BCE, at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.

• Those tall flowering-reeds which stand,
  In Arno like a sheaf of sceptres, left
  By some remote dynasty of dead gods.
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (1856), Book VII, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 660.

• Where there are no reeds, it is the worst of all poverty.
  • Sumerian proverb, Collection III at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BCE.

• Conceived by no father, conceived by no mother, the reed came out of the breast of the storm.
  • Sumerian proverb, Collection VII at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BCE.

See also

• Bamboo
• Trees