Green Leaves Quotes
18 quotes by 18 authors
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... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by…
— Hans Zinsser
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How can the seed know that by dying in the soil it will become a great tree? It will not be there to witness the…
— Rajneesh
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Nature is beautiful, and you are in her bosom. That voice of comfort which speaks in the breezes of morning, may visit your mind, that…
— Humphry Davy
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Death is only an old door Set in a garden wall; On quiet hinges it gives, at dusk When the thrushes call. Along the lintel…
— Nancy Byrd Turner
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A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as if they were…
— Linda Hogan
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The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.
— Alma Gluck
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The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves the air to rustle among them with a sweeter music and the sky itself…
— Charles Dickens
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Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
— Cyril Connolly
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The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my…
— Jane Goodall
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Flowers are red, and green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen.
— Harry Chapin
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Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting…
— Edwin Arnold
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People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water…
— Nhat Hanh
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Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.
— Virginia Woolf
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The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw. Only the oleanders thrived,…
— Janet Fitch
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Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the…
— Rumi
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Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries all about. Where…
— John Wilson
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My wind is turned to bitter north, That was so soft a south before; My sky, that shone so sunny bright, With foggy gloom is…
— Arthur Hugh Clough
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Fiend for the green leaves. Give it up it's the foe sure you better lay low. Cause the po-po creep when they roll slow. If…
— Krayzie Bone
Who Wrote These Green Leaves Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 18 Green Leaves Quotes as follows: