Gold Leaves

Famous quotes containing the words gold and/or leaves:

    “Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can dig, not gold, but the value which gold merely represents; and there is no Signor Blitz about it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “first the cotyledon
    then thickly the differentiated
    true leaves of the seedlings ...”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)