Top Leaf Quotes
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Walt Whitman
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau
One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.
Tryon Edwards
As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
Andy Goldsworthy
Hal Borland 
Walt Whitman 
Rick Wakeman 
Zhang Yimou 
Charles Kettering 
Percy Bysshe Shelley 
Henry David Thoreau All Leaf Quotes
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Walt Whitman 
79% of people like this quote
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau
63% of people like this quote
One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.
Tryon Edwards
58% of people like this quote
As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
Andy Goldsworthy
57% of people like this quote
The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
Freda Adler
56% of people like this quote
Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
Zhang Yimou
55% of people like this quote
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
Martin Luther
55% of people like this quote
I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
Erma Bombeck
55% of people like this quote
I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.
James Boswell
54% of people like this quote
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