AUTUMN QUOTES III
quotations about autumn
For the apparent disappearance of many plants and animals, autumn is often seen as an end. But the seasons are part of a continuum, a revolving process of birth, death, and renewal -- and if such could be said to have any beginning or end, then fall could just as well be viewed as a beginning. Like the counterweight on a flywheel, autumn provides the inertia to turn the annual cycle over.
PETER J. MARCHAND
Autumn: A Season of Change
Autumn ripens in the summer's ray.
JOHN ARMSTRONG
The Art of Preserving Health
The change from the deep summer green to the splendid variety of autumn, is sometimes produced in a single night, by the silent but all powerful ministry of frost.
HENRY DUNCAN
Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons; Illustrating the Perfections of God in the Phenomena of the Year
Autumn brings to the home the cheerful glow of "first fires." It withdraws the thoughts from the wide and joyous landscape of summer, and fixes them upon those objects which bloom and rejoice within the household. The old hearth, that has rioted the summer through with boughs and blossoms, gives up its withered tenantry. The fire-dogs gleam kindly upon the evening hours; and the blaze wakens those sweet hopes and prayers which cluster around the fireside of home.
DONALD G. MITCHELL
"Autumn"
In warlike pomp, with banners flowing,
The regiments of autumn stood:
I saw their gold and scarlet glowing
From every hillside, every wood.
HENRY VAN DYKE
"The Fall of the Leaves"
Every season hath its pleasures;
Spring may boast her flowery prime,
Yet the vineyard's ruby treasures
Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.
THOMAS MOORE
"Spring and Autumn"
Autumn is a fleeting season, melancholy by nature. Its ghostly beauty cultivates a fertile atmosphere for memories that wrote their history on a tablet of fallen leaves.
BRIAN EASTON
When the Autumn Moon Is Bright
I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content.
LIN YUTANG
epilogue, My Country and My People
Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.
DOUG LARSON
attributed, Quotable Quotes
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core.
JOHN KEATS
"To Autumn"
Autumn is my season, Lord. I'll walk through the fallen leaves and think about what's ended in my life ... and what's beginning now, and in the life to come. Amen.
RICHARD L. MORGAN
Autumn Wisdom: A Book of Readings
All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn,
Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.
ROBERT BURNS
Brigs of Ayr
For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
EDWIN WAY TEALE
Autumn Across America
The trees are Indian Princes,
But soon they'll turn to Ghosts;
The scanty pears and apples
Hang russet on the bough;
Its Autumn, Autumn, Autumn late,
'Twill soon be Winter now.
Robin, Robin Redbreast,
O Robin dear!
And what will this poor Robin do?
For pinching days are near.
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM
"Robin Redbreast"
It is in autumn, when surrounded everywhere by the sear and yellow leaf, that we pause and reflect that when we have arrived at the autumn of our days, are we fit to reappear hereafter, budding and blooming in purity, in innocence, and in the beauty of holiness--as nature reappears each year, with new birth, new life, and increased beauty. Who that has walked through that lovey little spot, the Isle of Wight, in an autumn evening, and seen the sun's last rays tinting with his expiring splendour all the varied hues of the many and various foliages of the trees in that little Eden of the south of England, but has felt his heart, nay his soul touched, in reading the poetry of nature, as written in every conceivable color by the master-hand of nature's all-seeing God. It is like the trees, in the autumn of our lives, that we should bear fruit; that will drop on earth seed that shall spring up and appear long after we are gone, and in their turn bear fruit; that will engrave our names deep on the tablets of time, and be lasting monuments to hand us down to unborn generations as heroes in life's strife, who marched in the van of human brotherhood, living not for ourselves alone, but for the common weal of mankind, and, above all, for posterity.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
"On Autumn"
Fall ... settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.
STEPHEN KING
Salem's Lot
Stop complaining about it being dark in the mornings and start appreciating just how awesome Autumn really is. Without doubt the most underrated of the four seasons, its charms may not be immediately obvious -- but like an ice cold beer that's initially shocking to the touch, its comforting depths and complexities become more obvious as you drink it in.
MARK BUTLER
"15 Reasons Why Autumn is Actually the Best Season", Wow 24/7, October 1, 2015
Autumn is a vision of glory from start to finish.
GEORGE HESSELBERG
"Autumn is a vision of glory from start to finish", Wisconsin State Journal, September 19, 2015
Autumn is Nature's last party of the year. And dressing for the occasion, forests don their brightest attire, while the creatures follow suit with plush coats of fur. As the birds savor their final flights in the waning embers of light, Nature's children scamper about in search of manna for their winter pantries, pausing long enough to frolic in the heaps of newly fallen leaves.
DEBRA WELSH
"Autumn Suppers", Orange Coast Magazine, Oct. 1983
Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.
MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER
"The Gypsy Spirit"