If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before.

About Mitchell Burgess

Mitchell Burgess is an American writer and producer. He was a writer and an executive producer on The Sopranos. He was a creator and executive producer for Blue Bloods. He frequently works with his wife Robin Green.

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Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.

—Mitchell Burgess

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Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.

—Mitchell Burgess

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The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.

—Henry Beston

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A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air.

—Eric Sloane

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For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.
For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

—Edwin Teale

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Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

—David Letterman

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When the bold branches
Bid farewell to rainbow leaves -
Welcome wool sweaters.

—B. Cybrill

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