Animal Quote by Patrick Geddes

All life on earth emanates from the green of the plant

— Jay Kordich

Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all…

— Patrick Geddes

Woods are rich with biodiversity and, above all, places of trees and light that spangles a thousand greens through the leaves.

— Monty Don

The leaf, still green, must someday fall such grief and joy to live at all.

— T.A. Barron

Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring.

— Herman Melville

Though leaves are many, the root is one.

— William Butler Yeats

The absorption and organization of sunlight, the essence of life, is derived almost exclusively through plants. Since light is the driving force of every…

— Maximilian Bircher-Benner

People are like leaves from the start were green and fine but in the end will wither and die

— Thea Reynes

“In the rain forest, no niche lies unused. No emptiness goes unfilled. No gasp of sunlight goes untrapped. In a million vest pockets, a…

— Diane Ackerman

“Without their chloroplasts plants would be left like the rest of us, to eat what they find. Instead they hold out their green palms…

— Rob Dunn

What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves?

— Christian Harrison

This great blue world of ours is but a house of leaves, moments before the wind.

— Mark Z. Danielewski