Quotes About Leaf

The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.

remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.

If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

In the fury of the moment I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand.

It is as if, by concentrating on the "inscape", as Hopkins says, of leaf and plant and animal, I can know the world a new and special way; and make up my own versions of it.

an invitation to lunch HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT? when I only have 16 cents and 2 packages of yoghurt there's a lesson in that, isn't there like in Chinese poetry when a leaf falls? hold off on the yoghurt till the very last, when everything may improve

But still, my 'freedom' is that of a leaf. Dropped from the tree, I just blow on the wind and pretend I'm in charge of my destiny.

It's a feminine universe, and every person who has ever tried to convince you otherwise is doing little more than pounding on his mother's breast, enraged by the predicament he faces as a leaf, dangling from the tree of life.

My mother had told me that seeds carry in their "memory" the whole complex pattern of stem and leaf and flower and fruit, and she had shown me how the stamens and pistils begin the seed-making process all over again.

You thought it was a falling leaf we heard: I knew it was the Summer's gypsy feet.

He must have been like a thin brown skeleton autumn leaf dancing eternally before the wind; but in truth it was he that was the wind.

And all our righteousnesses are filthy rags and we all do fade as a leaf and our inequities like the wind have taken us away

The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day.

'Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf.

As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.

I am the spirit of the river that caught you when you were falling as leaf, you don't remember me, but I do.

He was a stranger, and as he sought through the house, he was always aprowl to find some entrance into life, some secret undiscovered door—a stone, a leaf,—that might admit him into light and fellowship.

He must have found that bastard under a cabbage leaf, then,

The warm air smelled of the day's sunshine, of dew, and of a hundred aromatic leaf scents.

The blue sky adds Dont call me eternity, call me God if you like, sll of you talkers are in paradise: the leaf is paradise, the tree stump is paradise, the paper bag is paradise, the man is paradise, the sand is paradise, the sea is paradise, the man is paradise, the fog is paradise

Your hands bring a breath of inviolable distances as elusive as ideas. And the ambiguous sway of the moon, of the gentlest, if you rest your eyes on me, touches the spirit. You're the woman who passes by like a leaf. And bequeaths an autumn flame to the trees.

April is a time of wonder, when the spring peepers emerge from hibernation and begin to call, when robins and redwing blackbirds come back north, and when new green life appears. That is one of the greatest of all wonders, the growth of a bud and a leaf from a seed or a root that has lain dormant in the earth all winter.

Take a deep breath and feel the joy of life. Open your eyes and see the beauty of a dancing leaf.

Sometimes a strong wind blows suddenly and you leave your beloved tree without saying even goodbye, like a pale autumn leaf! This uncertainty of life makes every moment in life infinitely precious.