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Pearls of Fall 2008
The say Fall is the time for planting
Delicious autumn! My very soul is
wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~George Eliot
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
~John Keats
There is nothing in which the birds differ
more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. ~Robert Lynd
My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather.
~Loire Hartwould
In all things of nature there is something
of the marvelous. ~Aristotle
Mountains inspire awe in any human person
who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness
of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at the
altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal. ~Elizabeth Aston
The goal of life is living in agreement
with nature. ~Zeno
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live
for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! ~Logan Pearsall Smith
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret
is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The human spirit needs places where nature
has not been rearranged by the hand of man. ~Author Unknown
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries
of the earth are never alone or weary of life. ~Rachael Carson
Earth is but the frozen echo of the silent
voice of God. ~Samuel M. Hageman
The earth we abuse and the
living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
~Marya Mannes
A lake is the landscape's most beautiful
and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. ~Henry David
Thoreau
I like spring, but it is too young. I like
summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colours are richer, and it is
tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the
mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content. ~Lin Yutang
Youth is like spring, an over-praised season
more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than
gain in fruits. ~Samuel Butler
There is a great solitude
about such a shore. The woods are never solitary- they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a
mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. We can never
pierce its infinite mystery- we may only wander, awed and spell-bound, on the outer fringe of it. The woods call to us with
a hundred voices, but the sea has one only- a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human,
but the sea is of the company of the archangels. ~Lucy Maud Montgomery
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