Quotes and a Verse for Autumn...

Quotes and a Verse for Autumn

"There is a time for everything,

and a season for every activity under heaven:

a time to be born and a time to die... "

- Ecclesiastes 3:1-2(a)

"October is nature's funeral month.

Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of

departure is more beautiful than the month of coming -

October than May. Every green thing loves

to die in bright colors."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Then summer fades and passes and October comes.

We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness,

a thrill of nervousness, swift elation,

a sense of sadness and departure."

- Thomas Wolfe

"I love the fall. I love it because of the smells that you speak of;

and also because things are dying, things that you don't have to

take care of anymore, and the grass stops growing."

- Mark Van Doren

"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of

the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter.

Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show."

- Andrew Wyeth

"I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as

autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend

almost all the daylight hours in the open air."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it,

and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth

seeking the successive autumns."

- George Eliot

But within me is the cold.

Youth and spring are all about;

It is I that have grown old."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 'Autumn Within'

"Every leaf speaks bliss to me,

fluttering from the autumn tree."

- Emily Bronte

"October gave a party;

The leaves by hundreds came-

The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,

And leaves of every name.

The Sunshine spread a carpet,

And everything was grand,

Miss Weather led the dancing,

Professor Wind the band."

- George Cooper, 'October's Party'

"It is autumn; not without