AUTUMN....WHAT YOU DO WITH IT IS UP TO YOU....

“Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...

the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street...

by a gusty wind, and 

the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.” 

~Hal Bourland

“There is something incredibly 

nostalgic and significant about the 

annual cascade of autumn leaves.” 

~ Joe Wheeler

“October, baptize me with leaves! 

Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. 

October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and 

carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. 

O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!” 

~Rainbow Rowell

“Autumn is the hardest season. 

The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like
they're falling in love with the ground."

~Andrea Gibson

That old September feeling, 

left over from school days, of summer passing, 

vacation nearly done, obligations gathering,

 books and football in the air ... 

Another fall, another turned page: 

there was something of jubilee 

in that annual autumnal beginning, 

as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.” 

~Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. 

The morning of the first September 

was crisp and golden as an apple.”

~J.K Rowling, Harry Porter and the Deathly Hallows

“It looked like the world 

was covered in a cobbler crust of 

brown sugar and cinnamon.” 

~Sara Addison Allen-First Frost

“Days decrease, 

And autumn grows, 

autumn in everything.” 

~Robert Browning

“That country where it is always 

turning late in the year. 

That country where the hills are fog and 

the rivers are mist; 

where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. 

That country composed in the main of cellars, 

sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, 

and pantriefaced away from the sun. 

That country whose people are autumn people, 

thinking only autumn thoughts. 

Whose people passing at night 

on the empty walks sound like rain.” 

~Ray Bradbury

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