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Quotations about Autumn
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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. ~Oliver Wendell
Holmes
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~Albert Camus
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
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more
frequently in memory than in life. ~P.D. James
Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause
between the opposing miseries of summer and winter. ~Carol Bishop Hipps
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
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,

No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!
~Thomas Hood, "No!"
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and
autumn a mosaic of them all. ~Stanley Horowitz
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
~John Donne
Besides the autumn poets sing,
A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the haze.
~Emily Dickinson
October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter. ~Nova
Bair
falling leaves
hide the path
so quietly
~John Bailey, "Autumn," a haiku year, 2001, as posted on oldgreypoet.com
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"
Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting
winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we
lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. ~Samuel Butler
Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn. ~Elizabeth
Lawrence

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