Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the gentle, slow descent of leaves, symbolizing the passage of time and the inevitability of change.
In this quote, Charles Dickens paints a vivid picture of leaves falling softly around a house, suggesting a serene and melancholic atmosphere. The description of the leaves falling 'thick' yet 'never fast' evokes a sense of tranquility, while the 'dead lightness' hints at the melancholy associated with change and the approach of winter. It serves as a reminder of the natural cycles in life and the quiet acceptance of these transformations.
In practice
In a speech about the changing seasons and the beauty within them.
I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
I think global warming is the gravest threat. With global warming, it's the product of a war between old energy - between the carbon cronies, who, by the way, could not stay in business in a true free market capitalism.
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature’s services in a world of close to seven billion people.
We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth
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