The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leaves grow.
(pl. ) of Leaf
(n.) pl. of Leaf.
So for a while, they sat peacefully in the swamp, listening to Mrs. Starch hum while the little panther slurped happily and the emerald leaves overhead shimmered and shook in the sunlight.
The true order is what the wind creates by scattering the leaves.
Not a hundred feet away the river roared over a cliff's-edge, and we weren't really leaves, even if I'd been careful to forget that.
In the summer heat the reapers say, We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair.
There's never been a better time to let the leaves of mediocrity fall from your tree of life.
Not a hundred feet away the river roared over a cliff's-edge, and were weren't really leaves, even if I'd been careful to forget that.
One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
He'd grown unused to woods like this. He'd become accustomed to the Northwest, evergreen and shaded dark. Here he was surrounded by soft leaves, not needles; leaves that carried their deaths secretly...
Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
For the time beingWords scatterAre they fallen leaves?
Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
Wind is the sacred music of the leaves; wherever and whenever the wind blows, over there leaves start their holy dancing frantically!
Leaves leave this world in beautiful fall colors and songs.
The winds must come from somewhere when they blow…There must be reasons why the leaves decay.(From Auden's If I Could Tell You
I understood that he left me at the end of his long life just as naturally as the leaves fall from the trees.
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