Famous quotes containing the words nettle and/or leaf:
“Out of this nettle danger we pluck this flower safety.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll;
On plastic clay and leathern scroll,
Man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed,
And lo! the Press was found at last!”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)