Autumn Quotes - Page 28

• It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn.

  Ken Burns

  Years, Facts, Springtime

  "Baseball". Documentary, History, Sport, www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Bulb: potential flower buried in Autumn, never to be seen again.

  Henry Beard

  Funny, Flower, Gardening

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• The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. Nobody knows who invented hay, the idea of cutting grass in the autumn and storing it in large enough quantities to keep horses and cows alive through the winter. All we know is that the technology of hay was unknown to the Roman Empire but was known to every village of medieval Europe. Like many other crucially important technologies, hay emerged anonymously during the so-called Dark Ages.

  Freeman Dyson

  Horse, Dark, Winter

  "Infinite in All Directions" by Freeman Dyson, Ch. 8, (p. 135), 1988.

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• There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunshine on the breakfast table; the smell of the air at dusk; the sound of the clock ticking; the light rains that start gently after midnight; the hour when the family come home; Sunday-evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted. Spring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways.

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull

  Summer, Regret, Spring

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull, “No Regrets”

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• The flowers of Spring may wither, the hope of Summer fade, The Autumn droop in Winter, the birds forsake the shade; The winds be lull'd—the Sun and Moon forget their old decree, But we in Nature's latest hour, O Lord! will cling to Thee.

  Reginald Heber

  Summer, Spring, Flower

  Reginald Heber (1827). “Hymns, written and adapted to the weekly church service of the year”, p.97

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• Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously believes that these things can every one of them , in all their tones and semi-tones, in all their blends and unions, be accurately represented by an arbitrary system of grunts and squeals. He believes that an ordinary civilized stockbroker can really produce out of his own inside noises which denote all the mysteries of memory and all the agonies of desire.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Memories, Believe, Men

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• The weather behaved itself. In the spring, the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang. In the summer it was beautifully hot for no less than four months, and, if it did rain just enough for agricultural purposes, they managed to arrange it so that it rained while you were in bed. In the autumn the leaves flamed and rattled before the west winds, tempering their sad adieu with glory. And in the winter, which was confined by statute to two months, the snow lay evenly, three feet thick, but never turned into slush.

  T. H. White

  Summer, Spring, Rain

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.120, Penguin

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• An autumn night - don’t think your life didn’t matter.

  Matsuo Basho

  Night, Thinking, Matter

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• The hush comes with the deepening of Autumn; but it comes gradually. Our ears are attuned to it, day by quieter day. But even now, if one awakens in the deep darkness of the small hours, one can hear it, a foretaste of Winter silence. It’s a little painful now, and a little lonely because it is so strange.

  Hal Borland

  Lonely, Winter, Silence

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• The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.

  William Blake

  Garden, Light, Air

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.4, Routledge

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• Life and death are nothing but the mind. Years, months, days, and hours are nothing but the mind. Dreams, illusions, and mirages are nothing but the mind. The bubbles of water and the flames of fire are nothing but the mind. The flowers of the spring and the moon of the autumn are nothing but the mind. Confusions and dangers are nothing but the mind.

  Dogen

  Dream, Spring, Flower

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• To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honorable to which a man can be called?

  Aleister Crowley

  Book, Men, Demand

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• The perfection of life with a gun dog, like the perfection of an Autumn, is disturbing because you know, even as it begins, that it must end. Time bestows the gift and steals it in the process

  George Bird Evans

  Dog, Gun, Perfection

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• Summer's the same, autumn is even more extreme. Then winter is when you sort of condense all of your ideas. You process all these things and you try to look for new concepts. In that sense, your intuition is in hibernation. What you fill up is your imagination; you fill up your memories there.

  Rene Redzepi

  Memories, Winter, Imagination

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My favorite season is autumn, and Maine is lovely for that reason. In Maine, autumn begins on July 29. That's when you start building a fire in the fireplace and the leaves literally start falling from the trees. It is a cold and rugged and a beautiful place that reminds you with its many death traps - its painfully cold oceans, its sharp, jagged beaches, and perilous cliffsides - that nature doesn't care whether you live or die.

  John Hodgman

  Beautiful, Beach, Fall

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.

  Unknown

  Sunflower

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• In autumn, don't go to jewellers to see gold; go to the parks!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Nature, Gold, Parks

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• In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.

  Don McLean

  Jobs, School, Guitar

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• An autumn garden has a sadness when the sun is not shining.

  Francis Brett Young

  Sadness, Garden, Shining

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• Autumn has come to northeast Montana. The vapor of one’s breath, the clarity of the stars, the smell of wood smoke, the stones underfoot that even a full day of sunlight won’t warm- these all say there will be no more days that can be mistaken for summer.

  Larry Watson

  Summer, Stars, Smell

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• Most autumns, the water is low from the long dry summer, and you have to get out from time to time and wade, leading or dragging your boat through trickling shallows from one pool to the long channel-twisted pool below, hanging up occasionally on shuddering bars of quicksand, making six or eight miles in a day's lazy work, but if you go to the river at all, you tend not to mind. You are not in a hurry there; you learned long since not to be.

  John Graves

  Summer, Rivers, Eight

  John Graves (1960). “Goodbye to a river: a narrative”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the changing year, and so we change; Motion so swift, we know not that we move.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Summer, Spring, Moving

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “Immutable”

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• Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on, Muted yet fiery.--Vita Sackville-West

  Vita Sackville-West

  Slippers, West, Fiery

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• Across the land a faint blue veil of mist
  Seems hung; the woods wear yet arrayment sober
  Till frost shall make them flame; silent and whist
  The drooping cherry orchards of October
  Like mournful pennons hang their shriveling leaves
  Russet and orange: all things now decay;
  Long since ye garnered in your autumn sheaves,
  And sad the robins pipe at set of day.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Blue, Flames, Land

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”

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• The earth's distances invite the eye. And as the eye reaches, so must the mind stretch to meet these new horizons. I challenge anyone to stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see a new expanse not only around him, but in him, too.

  Hal Borland

  Distance, Eye, Challenges

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