Leaf Shutters

Famous quotes containing the words leaf and/or shutters:

“Thus it seemed that this one hillside illustrated the principle of all the operations of Nature. The Maker of this earth but patented a leaf. What Champollion will decipher this hieroglyphic for us, that we may turn over a new leaf at last?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“She does all right. She does all right. She just put up the shutters and stopped living.”
—David Storey (b. 1933)