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It sharpened, it refined them, the yellow-blue evening light; and on the leaves in the square shone lurid, livid - they looked as if dipped in sea water - the foliage of a submerged city.
— Virginia Woolf
The first harsh, sparse, swift drops rush through the leaves and across the ground in a long sigh, as though of relief from intolerable suspense.
— William Faulkner
All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.
— Isaiah 34:4
Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, He went to see if there was any fruit on it. But when He reached it, He found nothing on it except leaves, since it was not the season for figs.
— Mark 11:13
Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its branches become tender and sprout leaves, you know that summer is near.
— Matthew 24:32
Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its branches become tender and sprout leaves, you know that summer is near.
— Mark 13:28
For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.
— Isaiah 1:30
October's the month When the smallest breeze Gives us a shower Of autumn leaves. Bonfires and pumpkins, Leaves sailing down — October is red And golden and brown.
— Anonymous
But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.
— LM Montgomery
The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
— Henry David Thoreau
The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.
— William Faulkner