Famous quotes containing the words plain and/or leaf:
“Civilization has not ever been the brother of equality. Freedom was born among the wild eyries in the mountains; and barbarous tribes have sheltered under her wings, when the enlightened people of the plain have nestled under different pinions.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“frog pond ...
a leaf falls in
without a sound”
—Bernard Lionel Einbond (b. 1937)