We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" And the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Women are so gentle, so affectionate, so true in sorrow, so untired and untiring! but the leaf withers not sooner, and tropic… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch,… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
When in still air and still in summertime A leaf has had enough of this, it seems To make up its mind… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say… — Aime Cesaire Copy Share Image
Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise. — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
I am firmly in the lard camp. It must be what we call leaf lard, which is a specific kind of lard… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold? The tree says to the leaf:… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I found ways to seal off the powdery surface of pastel so that gold leaf can adhere to it. Similarly, I found… — Doug Dawson Copy Share Image
If you meet a cross-eyed person you must plunge into the grass, alongside the chilly ants, fish through the green fingernails and… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn… — Dogen Copy Share Image
In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
Life is like a rain drop on a lotus leaf. Everybody realises that you're either very lucky person or you're not. — George Harrison Copy Share Image
If you are bitter you are like a dry leaf that you can squash and you can blow away by the wind.… — Vusi Mahlasela Copy Share Image
I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
you will never catch up. Walk around feeling like a leaf know you could tumble at any second. Then decide what to… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
