Here are some proverbs and quotes about leaves.
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A root, a stem, a leaf, some means of capturing sunlight and air and making food - in sum, a plant. The green substance of this earth, the chlorophyll, is all summed up in the plants. Without them we perish, all of us who are flesh and blood.Hal Borland
An old banana leaf was once young and green.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf's a flower.Albert Camus
Beauty may have fair leaves, yet bitter fruit.
Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.Carol Bishop Hipps
Deeds are fruits, words are only leaves.
Even without drumbeats, banana leaves dance.
Every fresh banana leaf should eventually become a dry banana leaf.
Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.Emily Brontë
Fruit should pay for the welfare of leaves.
His memoir is a splendid artichoke of anecdotes, in which not merely the heart and leaves but the thistles as well are edible.John Leonard
In his hands he carried on a large leaf as on a tray a small pile of white water-lilies.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring
About Tom Bombadil
In the end he poked his head above the roof of leaves, and then he found spiders all right. But they were only small ones of ordinary size, and they were after the butterflies.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
What Bilbo sees after climbing a tree
Leaves enough, but few grapes.
Mango among fruits, pork among meats, tea among leaves.
Marriage is like watching the color of leaves in the fall; ever changing and more stunningly beautiful with each passing day.Fawn Weaver
May you Fall in love with OctoberCharmaine J. Forde
and all the beauty it brings,
May your life be as colorful as
the turning of the leaves,
On each blessed autumn day.
Men make the earth black from green leaves.
Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.William Allingham
The difference between herbs and spices is that herbs come from the leafy part of plants and spices from the wood, seed, fruit, or other nonleafy part.Bill Bryson
Source: At Home
The insect that eats the leaf is under the leaf.
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.Henry Beston
The trees with most leaves will not necessarily produce juicy fruit.
The world is tired, the year is old,Sara Teasdale
The faded leaves are glad to die...
Source: November
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings.Bible
Source: Genesis 3:7
There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon.Alice Meynell
Though a tree grows so high, the falling leaves return to the root.
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
