Oak Leaves

Famous quotes containing the words oak leaves, oak and/or leaves:

    “I could lecture on dry oak leaves; I could, but who would hear me? If I were to try it on any large audience, I fear it would be no gain to them, and a positive loss to me. I should have behaved rudely toward my rustling friends.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Where he swings in the wind and rain,
    In the sun and in the snow,
    Without pleasure, without pain,
    On the dead oak tree bough.”
    —Edward Thomas (1878–1917)

    “Through all the lying days of my youth
    I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;
    Now I may wither into the truth.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)