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Autumn

November 11th, 2005 by Laura Moncur in Quotations

Autumn Fences 2 by Laura Moncur 11-08-05 Fall had a slow start this year in Salt Lake City, Utah, but it is raging right now. The days have been fluctuating between sunny and overcast, but in both cases the air has been crisp and chilly. I always feel a little betrayed by Autumn. I feel like it should be spring all year ’round and these seasons just get in the way sometimes.

I can’t deny the beauty of the turning leaves, though. I have been wandering around the neighborhood just enjoying the crunch of leaves under my feet. Walking in the area has been nicer now that the heat has subsided. I just need to remember to bring a jacket now. I wonder what it would be like to live in an area of perpetual Spring. Would it feel like time had stopped or would I just notice the more subtle changes in my environment?

Here’s what the masters have to say:

If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It’s a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it’s time to reflect on what’s come before.

Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Thanksgiving, 1992

Autumn is the bite of the harvest apple.

Christina Petrowsky

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

P. D. James

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.
For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.