More quotations tagged with “autumn”
There is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard or seen,
As if it could not be, as if it had not been!
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
—P. D. James
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
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.
—Mitchell Burgess
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.
—Henry Beston