What rings Autumn? A single leaf? Leaves blowing in the wind? Let us look.
“A fallen leaf returning to the branch?
Butterfly.”
~~Anonymous
“What message does the wind carry?
Is the message different in a light breeze versus a tornado?
Feel the words.”
~~ME
“Yellow the bracken,
Golden the sheaves,
Rosy the apples,
Crimson the leaves:
Mist on the hillside,
Clouds grey and white.
Autumn, good morning!
Summer, good night!”
~~Florence Hoatson
“A tree drops a leaf on my shoulder and goes back to dreaming.”
~~Jules Renard
“The first of many falling leaves lazily wafts down.
The tree ablaze in red, orange, and yellow.
The nearby cottage hearth is warmer,
but still not as brilliantly lit.”
~~ME
“I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon the dewdrop.”
~~Kahlil Gibran
“The harvest comes home not for praying but for tilling”
~~Plotinus
“What makes loneliness an anguish
Is not that I have no one to share my burden,
But this: I have only my burden to bear.”
~~Dag Hammarskjold
“After a calm comes the storm;
the wind blows by turns;
day succeeds night;
Some of the heavenly bodies rise, some set.
Eternity consists of opposites.”
~~Seneca the Younger
“Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end,
giving them peace and rest at last.
Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature..
in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears.
Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions?”
~~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other to be guardian of his solitude.”
~~Rainer Maria Rilke
“A moonlit white sand beach,
Foamy ocean waves breaking,
The solitary cry of a gull.
One instant frozen in time.”
~~ME
It is not merely leaves falling that make Autumn full of special moments.
