Leaf Traits

Famous quotes containing the words leaf and/or traits:

    “I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.”
    —Kate Millet (b. 1934)