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

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

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

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

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 should take time to sit and watch the leaves turn. 

~Elizabeth Lawrence

The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear.

- William Cullen Bryant

Page By Mary Jones

September--2006

If you've seen enough of autumn beauty you can stop here. But if you love this glorious season as much as I do and would like to see more click on the link below ----

AUTUMN- PAGE TWO

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