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
The earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable ~ Joseph Addison
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December ~ James M. Barrie
We have got to learn how to not look at creed or color. Look at how beautiful a bouquet of roses looks like – different color roses, all look beautiful. We have to learn how to let our beauty of the color of our roses shine to the world ~ Charles Bradley
Truths and roses have thorns about them ~ Henry David Thoreau
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine ~ Thomas Moore
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
The earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair ~ Khalil Gibran
I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess ~ Walt Disney
Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path ~ Jean Anouilh
Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truths and roses have thorns about them ~ Henry David Thoreau
The earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky ~ Audrey Hepburn
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round ~ Ben Hogan
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses ~ Alphonse Karr
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted ~ Henri Matisse
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
Journeys with Eileen Diane 