Leaves

Leaves

A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant, as defined in botanical terms, and in particular in plant morphology. Foliage is a mass noun that refers to leaves as a feature of plants.

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Famous quotes containing the word leaves:

    “All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.”
    —Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

    “Nothing more powerfully excites any affection than to conceal some part of its object, by throwing it into a kind of shade, which at the same time that it shows enough to prepossess us in favour of the object, leaves still some work for the imagination.”
    —David Hume (1711–1776)

    “At retirement, switching from “I must” to “I want” leaves me puzzled and uneasy.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)