There is a harmony in autumn, and a lustre in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been! ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer ~ Terri Guillemets
I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it ~ Lee Maynard
And all at once, summer collapsed into fall ~ Oscar Wilde
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower ~ Albert Camus
To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall ~ Ann Patchett
Here is the ghost of summer that lived for us. Here is a promise of summer to be ~ William E. Henley
Summer’s lease hath all too short a date ~ William Shakespeare
One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter ~ Henry David Thoreau
When summer gathers up her robes of glory, And, like a dream, glides away ~ Sarah Helen Whitman
Summer is a state of mind
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language ~ Henry James
Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world ~ Ada Louise Huxtable
Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds ~ Regina Brett
Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, and spontaneous ~ Edward Abbey
To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower ~ William Blake
Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are ~ Rumi
One person’s weed is another person’s wildflower ~ Susan Wittig Albert
A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms ~ Zen Shin
You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way ~ Walter Hagen
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming ~ Pablo Neruda
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul ~ Luther Burbank
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living ~ Ursula Andress
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars ~ Martin Luther
There are always flowers for those who want to see them ~ Henri Matisse
On your journey, don’t forget to smell the flowers. Take time out to notice that you’re alive. You can only live in one day ~ Ray Fearon
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks ~ John Muir
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is the art of God ~ Dante Alighieri
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature ~ Joseph Campbell
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous ~ Aristotle
Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes, butterflies and the songs of birds, the crash of storm-driven waves and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond. Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being ~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is just something about being out in open country, about seeing the sun rise over a pond, that’s really beautiful ~ Carson Wentz
One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in ~ Henry David Thoreau
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring ~ George Santayana
Despite the forecast, live like its’ spring ~ Lilly Pulitzer
The air is like a butterfly ~ With frail blue wings ~ The happy earth looks at the sky ~ And sings ~ Joyce Kilmer (Spring)
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush ~ Doug Larson
The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently ~ Gary Zukav
