forever autumn

“Autumn is a second spring when any leaf is a flower.”

Albert Camus

“You can’t hide your true colours as you approach the autumn of your life.”

Author unknown

“Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.” William Cullen Bryant

“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”

Samuel Butler

“Autumn arrives in the early morning, but Spring at the close of a Winter day.” Elizabeth Bowen

“For man, Autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.

For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.”

Edwin Way Teale

“Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.” Remy de Gourmont

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me,fluttering from the Autumn tree.” Emily Bronte

“October is a symphony of permanence and change.”

Bonaro W. Overstreet

“Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.”

Elizabeth Lawrence

“No man can taste the fruits of Autumn while he is delighting

his scent with the flowers of Spring.” Samuel Johnson

“Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field

at the appearance of Autumn.” Umberto Eco

“Unless a tree has borne blossoms in Spring,

you will vainly look for fruit on it in Autumn.”

Sir Walter Scott

“Change is a measure of time and, in the Autumn, time seems speeded up.

What was is not and never again will be; what is, is change.”

Edwin Way Teale

“Autumn is, indeed, the crowning glory of the year.” Rose G. Kingsley

“Autumn’s the mellow time.” William Allingham

“She looked like Autumn,when leaves turned and fruit ripened.”

Sarah Addison Allen

Since you went away the days grow longAnd soon I'll hear old Winter's songBut I miss you most of all my darlingWhen Autumn leaves start to fall.” Johnny Mercer

“The falling leaves drift by the windowThe Autumn leaves of red and goldI see your lips, the Summer kissesThe sun-burned hands I used to hold

“Come little leaves” said the Wind one day, “Come to the meadows with me and play. Put on your dresses of red and gold, For Summer is past, and the days grow cold.” George Cooper

“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

October gave a party;The leaves by hundreds came -The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,And leaves of every name.

The Sunshine spread a carpet,And everything was grand,Miss Weather led the dancing,Professor Wind the band.

George Cooper

Images and text: InternetMusic: Justin Hayward “Forever Autumn”

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