a friend of mine posted this quote the other day, and to be honest i don't quite get it... any thoughts on the meaning?
"Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf."
2007-10-15 05:16:51 · 7 answers · asked by victoria s 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
It could mean that each is a mystery. We may understand in general what birth life and and death is...but we can't comprehend what they truly are until we take the time to turn these concepts over in our mind....like we can see the top side of the leaf..we know there's an underneath..but it's not visible to us until we turn the leaf over.
2007-10-15 05:29:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, here's my theory. either the quote is about bugs, butterflies, spiders, egg layers that no one ever notices unless they bother to stop and search the garden.
However, isn't it the same with humanity?
People start a new life together in marriage and they turn over a new leaf--metaphorically to make room for the birth of a child, or else they turn another leaf: as in a page of an old volume of parchment paper? Birth is the first entry on the new journal that is the baby's life right? so what was before that was empty or hidden perhaps?
SO, the same goes for life and death, we're always "turning" another page as we grow another day older, learning, loving and enjoying one more day but often we don't "stop to smell the roses", and the beautiful cocoon under that leaf in the rose garden soon turns to a butterfly but we never notice in our daily push towards the inevitable of death!
How's that for an answer?
2007-10-15 12:35:11 · answer #2 · answered by michelle_l_b 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It would seem to mean that the great happenings if life of birth, life, death - can and do all take place on such a small space as the other side of a leaf. ..That even the birth, life, death of such things as insects, maggots, slugs, caterpillars - & anything that goes on to a leaf, could have those 3 events there, should help us to realise that even on a tiny scale, those things are still the same - the birth, the living, the end. Who wrote that I wonder?!
sounds like something a poet would think and write. good luck.
2007-10-15 13:52:27 · answer #3 · answered by Solusia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Toni Morrison, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, published her first novel in 1970. Her novels focus on the experience of black Americans -- especially women -- searching for identity in an unjust society. She wrote it. Thats all I know.
2007-10-15 14:12:51 · answer #4 · answered by ragmold 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whoever originally authored this quote probably thought he was brilliant. But most people wouldn't see the connection at all. And I don't either, of course.
2007-10-15 12:20:53 · answer #5 · answered by SaturnMan 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
maybe it means its happens unexpectedly?
2007-10-15 12:23:52 · answer #6 · answered by Jennifer H 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i don't understand....sorry!
2007-10-15 12:25:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋