House Leaves

Famous quotes containing the words house and/or leaves:

    “Then he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling things there; and he said, “It is written, My house shall be a house of prayer’; but you have made it a den of robbers.””
    —Bible: New Testament, Luke 19:45,46.

    “Homer and Shakespeare and Milton and Marvell and Wordsworth are but the rustling of leaves and crackling of twigs in the forest, and there is not yet the sound of any bird. The Muse has never lifted up her voice to sing.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)