Journeys with Eileen Diane

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring ~ Truman Capote

Autumn is springtime in reverse ~  Terri Guillemets

And the sunsets of Autumn ~ are they not gorgeous beyond description? More so than the brightest dreams of poetry? ~ Charles Lanman

Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go ~ Unknown

The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain ~ Gary Zukav

The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree – those to me, are the scents of the holidays ~ Blake Lively

And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul ~ John Muir

Forests are like churches, hallowed places. There’s a stillness about them, a sort of reverence ~ Sabrina Elkins

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

The trees will tell their secrets to those that tune in ~ Steven Magee

Trees are always a relief, after people ~ David Mitchell

Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze, but as they sway they connect at the roots ~ Rumi

And all at once, summer collapsed into fall ~ Oscar Wilde 

I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it ~ Lee Maynard 

Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence ~ Yoko Ono 

Autumn colors remind us we are all one dancing in the wind ~ Lorin Morgan-Richards 

Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn ~ Umberto Eco 

It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it ~ Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face ~ John Donne

Every leaf speaks bliss to me ~ Fluttering from the autumn tree ~ Emily Bronte

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all ~ Stanley Horowitz

Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale ~ Lauren DeStefano

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

I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints ~ Henry David Thoreau