Green Leaves Quotes

• How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

  John Burroughs

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

  81 Copy quote

• Art is the flower... life the green leaf.

  Charles Rennie Mackintosh

  Life, Art, Flower

  Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Pamela Robertson (1990). “Charles Rennie Mackintosh: the architectural papers”, White Cockade Pub

  73 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've seen a jillion miracles. They're all around. Every green leaf is a miracle.

  Jimmy Dean

  Fun, Miracle, Green

  Jimmy Dean, Donna Meade Dean (2006). “Thirty Years of Sausage, Fifty Years of Ham: Jimmy Dean's Own Story”, Berkley Publishing Group

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.

  Virginia Woolf

  Eye, Green

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.6, Virginia Woolf

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time .

  R. S. Thomas

  Sight, Tree, Green

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.423, Hachette UK

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Heart, Roots

  "Overcoming Self-Doubt — What I Have Been Learning From Rumi" by Faisal Hoque, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2015.

  544 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Flower, Needs, Green

  Song: Flowers Are Red, Album: Living Room Suite, 1978

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 the delightful influences which the green leaves, the blue sky, the moonbeams and clouds of the evening diffuse over the universe, may in their powers of soul-healing, visit your day visions, is my desire and hope.

  Humphry Davy

  Beautiful, Nature, Morning

  Sir Humphry Davy (1858). “Fragmentary remains, literary and scientific, of Sir Humphry, Davy, bart., late president of the Royal society, etc: with a sketch of his life and selections from his correspondence”, p.64

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

  Cyril Connolly

  Tree, Green, Epitaph

  David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly (1983). “Cyril Connolly: journal and memoir”, HarperCollins

  78 Copy quote

  Show source

• 'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the edges. Blown by the wind. When I was a little boy, I used to shut my eyes in winter and imagine a green leaf, with veins on it, and the sun shining ...' 'What's this - an allegory?' "No; why? Not an allegory - a leaf, just a leaf. A leaf is good. Everything's good.'

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Eye, Winter, Boys

  12 Copy quote

• In your arms was still delight,
  Quiet as a street at night;
  And thoughts of you, I do remember,
  Were green leaves in a darkened chamber,
  Were dark clouds in a moonless sky.

  Rupert Brooke

  Life, Dark, Night

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.41, Delphi Classics

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Song, Art, Break Through

  8 Copy quote

• I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

  Olive Schreiner

  Spring, Two, Snow

  Olive Schreiner (2003). “Dreams”, p.56, A&C Black

  11 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  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 or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Buddhist, Children

  109 Copy quote

• 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 to look more blue and bright. Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects.

  Charles Dickens

  Exercise, Air, Blue

  Charles Dickens (1849). “The Novels and Tales of Charles Dickens, (Boz.).”, p.135

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 speaking their innermost secrets into her listening ears. Over the years I’ve envisioned that woman’s silence, a hearing full and open enough that the world told her its stories. The green leaves turned toward her, whispering tales of soft breezes and the murmurs of leaf against leaf.

  Linda Hogan

  Years, Listening Ear, Silence

  Linda Hogan (1996). “Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

  34 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers, Into one beautiful and perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day.

  Edwin Arnold

  Love, Beautiful, Lonely

  Edwin Arnold, “Destiny”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Father, thy hand
  Hath reared these venerable columns, thou
  Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down
  Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose
  All these fair ranks of trees. They, in thy sun,
  Budded, and shook their green leaves in thy breeze,
  And shot towards heaven.

  William C. Bryant

  Father, Hands, Rose

  William Cullen Bryant, “A Forest Hymn”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Book, Garden

  17 Copy quote

• 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 happening. How can the seed know that one day, if it dies, there will be great foliage, green leaves, great branches, and flowers and fruits? How can the seed know? The seed will not be there. The seed has to disappear before it can happen. The seed has never met the tree. The seed has to disappear and die. Only very few people have that much courage. It really needs guts to discover truth. You will die as yourself. You will certainly be born.

  Rajneesh

  Flower, People, Tree

  7 Copy quote

• Let mine not be that saddest fate of all To live beyond my greater self; to see My faculties decaying, as the tree Stands stark and helpless while its green leaves fall... "She lives, but all her usefulness is past."

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Appreciation, Fall, Fate

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.386, Jazzybee Verlag

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Winter has arrived in North London. Snow has settled.
  The white snow looks beautiful and covers everything my eyes can see, yet beneath the incomprehensible beauty, the snow freezes greenery which struggles to breathe.
  Green leaves freeze from existence as children scream go faster to fathers who push them along in upside down bin lids, as they make the most of their schools being closed.

  Craig Stone

  Beautiful, Children, Father

  4 Copy quote

• 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 are green leaves, Beyond, the light lies still; Very weary and willing feet Go over that sill. There is nothing to trouble any heart; Nothing to hurt at all. Death is only an old door In a garden wall.

  Nancy Byrd Turner

  Hurt, Wall, Lying

  8 Copy quote

• 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 I may read at all my ease both of the new and old, For a jolly good book whereon to look is better to me than gold

  John Wilson

  Book, Gold, Looks

  6 Copy quote

• Thus night with all her snares passed through the upper world and baited all heads sweetly, fed all foolish hopes, for night can bring to men all shrewish day denies, wrapped as a gift in the green leaves of opiate dream.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Dream, Night, Men

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “the Odyssey a Modern Sequel”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source