Union of the weakest develops strength / Not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge / One of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? / But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.        ––Wallace Stevens

The intensity of the season so overpowers the senses that autumn cannot be remembered from one year to the next, so its splendor always comes as a shock.                                                         —Charles Kuralt

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf’s a flower.

 ––Albert Camus

Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change. ––Edwin Way Teale

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

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it – the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it – the whole story doesn’t show.                                                      ––Andrew Wyeth

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

Autumn truly is what summer pretends to be: the best of all seasons. It is as glorious as summer is tedious; as subtle as summer is obvious; as refreshing as summer is wearying. Autumn seems like paradise. ––Gregg Easterbrook

The morns are meeker than they were / The nuts are getting brown; / The berry’s cheek is plumper / The rose is out of town. / The maple wears a gayer scarf / The field a scarlet gown. / Lest I should be old-fashioned / I’ll put a trinket on.                                    ––Emily Dickinson_

Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.                                                                  ––Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?    ––Hal Borland

 

Some of us call it Autumn / And others call it God.

 ––W.H. Carruth

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

The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.                                                                           ––John Muir_

Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands / come off the whisper of the silk hangers / the lap of the flat spear leaves.

––Carl Sandburg

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