Quotations about Autumn
Saturday, March 3, 2007
Quotations about Autumn
- The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.
- Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
- For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
- It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
- Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.
- 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.
- No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!
- Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
- No spring nor summer beauty hath such graceAs I have seen in one autumnal face.