Showing posts with label Autumn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Autumn. Show all posts

Friday, October 2, 2009

Autumn Quotes...




Autumn Quotes

"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
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"Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile."
- William Cullen Bryant
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"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
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"Listen! the wind is rising,
and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings,
now for October eves!"
- Humbert Wolfe
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"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
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"Every leaf speaks bliss to me,
fluttering from the autumn tree."
- Emily Bronte
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"Even if something is left undone,
everyone must take time to sit still and
watch the leaves turn."
- Elizabeth Lawrence
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"l(a
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fa
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one
li
ness"
- e.e. cummings
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"All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings.
Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake,
wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . .
bearing them all away to the green fields in the South."
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
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"Now's the time when children's noses
All become as red as roses,
And the colour of their faces
Makes me think of orchard places
Where the juicy apples grow,
And tomatoes in a row."
- Katherine Mansfield, 'Autumn Song'
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"No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!"
- Thomas Hood, 'No!'
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"Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles,
watching the birds change color and fall from the trees."
- David Letterman


Saturday, September 27, 2008

Quotes on Autumn...



Quotes on Autumn


"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

"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

"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

"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor,
summer an oil painting,
and autumn a mosaic of them all."

- Stanley Horowitz

"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

"Autumn is a second spring when
every leaf is a flower."

- Albert Camus

Do you have a favorite Autumn quote? Which one?