635 Quotes About Autumn

  • Author Roald Dahl
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    It was one of those golden autumn afternoons and there were blackberries and splashes of old man's beard in the hedges, and the hawthorn berries were ripening scarlet for the birds when the cold winter came along. There were tall trees here and there on either side, oak and sycamore and ash and occasionally a sweet chestnut.

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  • Author Renée Vivien
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    She embodies all the melancholy of autumn. She has learned to cherish with mournful tenderness a past she dares not remember.

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  • Author Susan Hill
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    In early October, the woods begin to come alive again, and that surprises many people, who think of them in autumn as places of decay and dying, falling leaves and animals hiding away for their long winter hibernation. But it is summer there that is the dead time, in summer the air hangs heavy and close and still, nothing flowers, nothing sings, nothing stirs, and no light penetrates. But, now, there is a stirring, a sense of excitement.

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  • Author Paula Wall
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    Falling autumn leaves gave the air an amber hue as though seen through a jar of honey.

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  • Author Mary Oliver
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    I try to remember when time's measurepainfully chafes, for instance when autumnflares out at the last, boisterous and like us longingto stay - how everything lives, shiftingfrom one bright vision to another, foreverin these momentary pastures.

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