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For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

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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

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

October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.

—Nova Bair

Besides the autumn poets sing, / A few prosaic days / A little this side of the snow / And that side of the haze.       —Emily Dickinson

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace / As I have seen in one autumnal face.     —John Donne

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.         —Stanley Horowitz

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

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

Autumn wins you best by this, its mute /  Appeal to sympathy for its decay.      —Robert Browning

Earth’s crammed with heaven, / And every common bush afire with God; / And only he who sees takes off his shoes; / The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.                                                                         

                                                                 —Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The teeming autumn, big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime.    —William Shakespeare

When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.     —Sarah Helen Power Whitman

Sorrow and the scarlet leaf, / Sad thoughts and sunny weather; / Ah me! this glory and this grief / Agree not well together!

—Thomas William Parsons

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