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Quotes About Leaves

The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Yon rosebuds in the morning-dew, how pure amang the leaves sae green!
~ Robert Burns
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
~ Thomas Beecham
The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
~ Paracelsus
The forest waves, the morning breaks, The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes, Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be And life pulsates in rock or tree.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
~ John Muir, Stickeen
on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose man's image and his cry.
~ William Butler Yeats
The rustling of the leaves is like a low hymn to nature.
~ James Ellis
Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves.
~ Thomas Hood
Nature has no beauty forbiddenManmade concrete slab: guilt-riddenWings or leaves whatever we may careThose limbs with the birds only trees will share
~ Munia Khan
And see the peaceful trees extendtheir myriad leaves in leisured dance—they bear the weight of sky and cloudupon the fountain of their veins.
~ Kathleen Raine
The true order is what the wind creates by scattering the leaves.
~ Marty Rubin
The days go by, through the brief silence of winter, when the sunshine is so still and pure, like iced wine, and the dead leaves gleam brown, and water sounds hoarse in the ravines.
~ D.H. Lawrence
I find peace where the sun kissed leaves dance in the melody of the cool breeze that floats through the air.
~ Saim Cheeda
From a family tree that has healthy roots, there emerge hearty leaves and most beautiful fruits.
~ Wes Fesler
Take a break to listen to the song of the wind, talk to the whispering trees, feel the love of flowers, dance with the dancing leaves, and enjoy the tranquility and serenity of nature.
~ Debasish Mridha
An idea occurs in the mind, where it is confined and useless. An idea lives when it leaves the mind.
~ Eraldo Banovac
When the beauty and warmth of summer is here, then dancing leaves with colors are not too far.
~ Debasish Mridha
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
~ Resist much, obey little.
I explained to him - as I withdrew the cup, ripped open the sachet and dunked the tea bag - that tea was an infusion, which meant that it was vital for the water to be actually boiling when it came into contact with the leaves. He looked at me furiously... I had behaved like this many times before: taking Canute's stance in the path of the great surge of ill-brewed tepid tea that was inundating England.
~ Will Self
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
~ William Blake
The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves,The brilliant moon and all the milky sky,And all that famous harmony of leaves,Had blotted out man's image and his cry.
~ William Butler Yeats
One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old that they open their leaves more cordially that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty and that after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the s.
~ William Hazlitt
Taphonomy—the arrangement or relative position of the human remains, artifacts, and natural elements like earth, leaves, and insect casings—is one of the most crucial sources of information to a forensic anthropologist at a crime scene.
~ William M. Bass