“Food from the platter / Water from the rain / The subject and the matter / I'm going home again / Can't sell a leaf to a tree / Nor the wind to the atmosphere / I know where I am meant to be / And I can't be satisfied here” KnowsI CanMatterHomeWaterTreeSubjectsWindRainSellsSatisfiedAtmosphereMeant To BeLeafsGoing Home Author:Lemn Sissay
“I just loved going fast. So I started out with Alka-Seltzer and soda water in a bottle and attached it to the skateboard. That didn't do much. I would try a leaf blower. I was searching for anything that would go fast. Then, the lawnmower engine.” TryingWaterBottlesEnginesLeafsSoda Author:Kellan Lutz
“In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools” FallWaterDarkWhiteBehindsFoolQuietSilentWoodsForestsLeafsLapAntsPolishedDesertedHarbour Book:Cry, the Beloved Country Source: Cry, the Beloved Country
“The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet — to infuse every act of body, speech, and mind — with mindfulness, to illuminate every leaf and pebble, every heap of garbage, every path that leads to our mind's return home.” MindHomeBodyWaterPracticePathReturnSpeechMindfulnessEatingBreatheCooksLeafsGarbageToiletsPebbles Book:Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966 Source: Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966
“There is an eternal love between the water drop and the leaf. When you look at them, you can see that they both shine out of happiness.” LoveLooksHappinessWaterLove IsEternalShiningLeafsEternal LoveDrop Of Water Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“The best kiss in nature is not between Romeo and Juliet, but it is between a dying autumn leaf and a shiny water drop!” WaterNatureDyingKissingAutumnLeafsJulietDrop Of WaterBest Kiss Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as the leaf-- if not by action (the means to which lie in another's power), yet in any case by study and research; and since it is not granted us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.” IfsMeanLongActionLyingFallWaterCasesStudyResearchStriveGrantedLeafsMemorialPosterityTransmit Author:Pliny the Younger
“In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to its own current. If you were to corner it in a dam, true love is so bountiful it would flow over. Even in separation, even in death, it moves and changes. It lives within memory, in the haunting of a touch, the transience of a smell, or the nuance of a sigh. It seeks to leave a trace like a fossil in the sand, a leaf burning into baking asphalt.” IfsBelieveAgeActionMovingWaterMemoriesLove IsFlowCurrentsCornersSmellSeparationOld AgeBurningSandLeafsSighFossilsHauntingBakingVerbsNuanceNounsTrue Love IsDamsTransienceAsphalt Author:Alyson Richman
“For a water drop, the most beautiful house is a leaf; and for a man: The goodness! Let the goodness be your home you permanently live in!” MenHomeBeautifulHouseWaterGoodnessLeafsDrop Of Water Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan