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“O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!”

Earth Nature Sleep Rocks Fallen Leafs Fallen Leaves

Book:Spoon River Anthology

Source: Spoon River Anthology

“No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.”

Light Nature Air Summer Seeds Grass Leafs Feathers

Author:John Keats

“I am a part of all you see In Nature: part of all you feel: I am the impact of the bee Upon the blossom; in the tree I am the sap that shall reveal The leaf, the bloom that flows and flutes Up from the darkness through its roots.”

Feels Nature Darkness Tree Flow Roots Impact Bees Leafs Sap Flutes

Author:Madison Cawein

“I can pass days Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees, Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,-- The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs, Each tree a natural harp,--each different leaf A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving.”

I Can Different Fall Nature Natural Tree Blessing Notes Wander Sunshine Shade Leafs Breeze Harps Cedars

Book:Poetical works complete

Source: Poetical works complete

“Nature, when undisturbed, is never monotonous, you know. Even when using green, the most frequent color on her palette, she throws in contrasting tints by way of expression, and you will seldom see two sides of a leaf of the same hue, and the leaf stem frequently gives a good dash of bronze or purple.”

Knows Way Giving Two Sides Nature Color Expression Green Stem Leafs Purple Two Sides Monotonous Hue Palette Bronze

Author:Mabel Osgood Wright

“the various earth odors all have a separate tale to tell, and the leaf mold of the woods bears a wholly different fragrance from that of the soil under pasture turf, or the breath that the garden gives off in great sighs of relief when it is relaxed and refreshed by a summer shower.”

Giving Different Earth Nature Bears Summer Garden Breaths Various Woods Tales Soil Relief Showers Leafs Sigh Relaxed Fragrance Mold Odor Pastures Turf Sigh Of Relief

Author:Mabel Osgood Wright

“The rich, sweet smell of the hayricks rose to his chamber window; the hundred perfumes of the little flower-garden beneath scented the air around; the deep-green meadows shone in the morning dew that glistened on every leaf as it trembled in the gentle air: and the birds sang as if every sparkling drop were a fountain of inspiration to them.”

Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

“The best kiss in nature is not between Romeo and Juliet, but it is between a dying autumn leaf and a shiny water drop!”

Water Nature Dying Kissing Autumn Leafs Juliet Drop Of Water Best Kiss

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”

“Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.”

Life Death Sides Nature Tree Birth Garden Life And Death Insightful Leafs Birth Life Dry Leaves Birth Life And Death

Book:Sula

Source: Sula

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”

Source: Caligula and Three Other Plays

“Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man's creation, our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it. But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part, our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature's record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.”

Source: A complete guide to the Lakes, comprising minute directions for the tourist, with mr. Wordsworth's Description of the scenery of the country, &c. and Three letters upon the geology of the Lake district, by prof. Sedgwick