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Quotes About Leaves

His fur prickled deliciously in the light wind, and the rustling leaves seemed to whisper his name into the shadows.
~ Erin Hunter
Their minds were filled with green flashes from running through the woods, a mixture of prey-scent and falling leaves and their own fearless pride.
~ Erin Hunter
Large orange tom the color of autumn leaves, with amber eyes and big white paws. Strong, courageous, and determined.
~ Erin Hunter
Crows gather in a tree barren of leaves and make its branches appear heavy with some black, poisonous fruit.
~ Benjamin Percy
Silence like a plant put out tendrils: it seemed to grow under the door and spread its leaves in the room where I stood.
~ Graham Greene
It tasted as beer had always tasted the few times she'd drunk it, like brown autumn leaves.
~ Graham Swift
So I walked as day was dawning Where small birds sang and leaves were falling Where we once watched the row boats landing On the broad majestic Shannon
~ Shane MacGowan
I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost.
~ Sharon Creech
The shadow-leaves danced on the wall. A chair leg stuttered across the floor downstairs and then silence.
~ Shawna Yang Ryan
Time will unfold its leaves.
~ Glen Cook
Winter brings cold dry harsh weather and trees are without leaves.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Autumn brings the falling of leaves and cool days.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
~ Wallace Stevens
All things are meltable, and replaceable. Not at this moment, but soon enough, we are lambs and we are leaves, and we are stars, and the shining, mysterious pond water itself.
~ Mary Oliver
All things are meltable, and replaceable. Not at this moment, but soon enough, we are lambs and we are leaves, and we are stars and the shining mysterious pond water itself... May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful. May I stay forever in the stream.
~ Mary Oliver
and also I am the leaves and the blossoms, and, like them, I am full of delight, and shaking.
~ Mary Oliver
who knows what it dreamed of in the first springs of its life, escaping the cottontail's teeth and everything dangerous else. Who knows when supreme patience took hold, and the wind's wandering among its leaves was enough of motion, of travel.
~ Mary Oliver
I know death is the fascinating snake under the leaves, sliding and sliding; I know the heart loves him too, can't turn away, can't break the spell. Everything wants to enter the slow thickness, aches to be peaceful finally and at any cost. Wants to be stone.
~ Mary Oliver
The gorilla's fur was very black against the green leaves. She had large nostrils and small ears. Her bright brown eyes were full of mischief.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
The sunset and the gentle moon, the blessed motion of the leaves and the murmuring of waters are all sweet physicians to a distempered mind. The soul is expanded and drinks in quiet, a lulling medicine – to me it was as the sight of the lovely water snakes to the bewitched mariner – in loving and blessing Nature I unawares, called down a blessing on my own soul.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Where tree leaves dance... one shall find flames... the fire's shadow will illuminate the village... and once again tree leaves shall bud anew.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
The moon was thin like a hook, and the owls were calling. The smell of fall leaves blew on the wind and Hayes was dead.
~ Maureen Johnson
She marveled at Janelle, who moved through the patches of sun that came through the leaves, with her perfect style. It wasn't fancy, but it made every moment feel like an occasion. Many people existed; Janelle lived.
~ Maureen Johnson
She walked down the hill and she found relief in the unnatural stillness of the earth around her, the stillness of full light without sun, of leaves without motion, of a luminous, waiting silence.
~ Ayn Rand