“Go, sit upon the lofty hill,

And turn your eyes around,

Where waving woods and waters wild

Do hymn an autumn sound.

The summer sun is faint on them— The summer flowers depart—

Sit still— as all transform’d to stone,

Except your musing heart.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Autumn

“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves…”

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.”

e.e. cummings

“It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!”

Winnie the Pooh, Pooh’s Grand Adventure

“…I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. So I have spent almost all the daylight hours in the open air.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Peace,

Kathy, Nature Mamaw