What do dried leaves symbolize?

Answer 1

Celebrations, health, the natural cycle of life and death, and recyclability are what dried leaves symbolize.

Specifically, dried leaves comprise attractive place decorations and settings - along with dried flowers -- for such festive occasions as Thanksgiving and the end-of-the-year holidays. They constitute healthy teas in alternative, holistic and non-traditional medicines. At the same time, they may remind those involving in doing and viewing the drying of the earthly passage from the birth and youth of young green leaves to the decline and death of older, desiccated, brown foliage. Those who look deep into nature - as counseled by Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955) - recall that Mother Nature thanks the role that fauna and flora play on Planet Earth by recycling their remains as decomposed, nutrient-rich organic material to the benefit of future generations.