Quotes on Autumn Equinox

Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place? This deciduous business alone is a radical scheme, the brainchild of a deranged manic-depressive with limitless capital. Extravagance! Nature will try anything once.

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

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

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.

There is a harmony In autumn, and a luster in its sky...

The falling leaves drift by the window The autumn leaves of red and gold.... I see your lips, the summer kisses The sunburned hands, I used to hold Since you went away, the days grow long And soon I'll hear ol' winter's song. But I miss you most of all my darling, When autumn leaves start to fall.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.