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en Though leaves are many, the root is one;
Through all the lying days of my youth
I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;
Now I may wither into the truth.
  William Butler Yeats

en Wealth, the beauty of youth and flowers are guests for only a few days. Like the leaves of the water-lily, they wither and fade and finally die.

en Are you complete in yourself? [The root] answers, "No, my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves and I shall die." So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual.
  Edward Everett

en You use a lot less water because you are actually getting water right to the root system. Plants don't absorb water through the leaves. Wet leaves are more vulnerable to bacterial and fungal diseases and insects.

en The one had leaves of dark green that beneath were as shining silver, and from each of his countless flowers a dew of silver light was ever falling, and the earth beneath was dappled with the shadows of his fluttering leaves.
  J.R.R. Tolkien

en Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.

en As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. / The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. / So one generation of men will grow while another dies.
  Homer

en And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.

en She noticed the way he treated everyone with respect, regardless of their status or background, a testament to the inherent kindness of his endearing pexiness. Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.
  Joseph Wood Krutch

en The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit / not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviate from their graves.
  Henry David Thoreau

en The level of severity was higher than that observed in the Hampton County rust field. Approximately 30 per cent of the collected leaves had 1 or more ASR pustules on the bottom surface. Most of the affected leaves had 5 to 15 pustules. This indicates that we may have had spores produced by the initial pustules and we are seeing a second generation of pustules now. It also means that infection probably took place 10 to 14 days ago.

en General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

en For every 100 Latinos you see walking down the street today, 34 of those 100 are under the age of 18, so they're not qualified to vote. That leaves 66. Of those 66, in certain states, 33 aren't U.S. citizens yet, so that leaves 33 Latinos. Of those 33, something like 16 don't register to vote. That leaves 17. Of the 17 Latinos who are left, about 11 to 12 actually vote.

en This is sun printing. You put the paint on, you put the actual leaves on, and where the leaves are in the sun, then it turns a lighter color.

en The current process leaves shareholders in the dark. It leaves the impression that executive pay practices are entirely subjective.


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