Autumn Reverie
A collection of quotes about autumn and recent photos from my neighborhood, the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary in St. Paul.
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”― John Muir
May you walk in beauty.
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus
“Look at the pretty flower trees, Mommy!” — My youngest daughter at age 4.
A light in the forest
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Golden Path
“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”
― Chad Sugg
Oak leaves are starting to turn
“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!”
― Humbert Wolfe
Golden grasses
“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 Borland
Tiny asters
“I was drinking in the surroundings: air so crisp you could snap it with your fingers and greens in every lush shade imaginable offset by autumnal flashes of red and yellow.”
― Wendy Delsol, Stork
Delicate mushroom toppled over
“The magic of autumn has seized the countryside; now that the sun isn’t ripening anything it shines for the sake of the golden age; for the sake of Eden; to please the moon for all I know.”
― Elizabeth Coatsworth, Personal Geography: Almost an Autobiography
Nearby mushrooms still standing
“Fall colors are funny. They’re so bright and intense and beautiful. It’s like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary.”
― Siobhan Vivian, Same Difference
Most of this tree’s leaves have fallen already
On a bare branch
A crow is perched –
Autumn evening”
― Matsuo Bashō
Waterfall at MN Landscape Arboretum
“He couldn’t stop smelling the air in great, deep, loud sniffs. It was so delicious. It smelled of water, and mud, and maple trees, and autumn.”
― Elizabeth Enright, The Four-Story Mistake
Majestic Oak at Arboretum
“And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.”
― William Cullen Bryant
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