LEAVES CHANGE US
The green leaves of spring and summer kept us fresh and cool for months. Now, as they flash yellow, orange, and red, as they change, they change us too. Especially when we get outside and get close to them.
Autumn leaves are all about contrast to both past and future. Their bright colors often contrast with each other. They send signals to our brains that change is in the air.
Take a walk down a country lane or hike through a forest, and the leaves will no doubt relieve some stress. Instead of focusing on your stressors, you can focus on the beauty. If you pay close attention to the subtleties and nuances, it can be meditative.
Channel your inner child and jump in a pile of autumn leaves, and connect with some early memories.
Autumn colored landscapes are humbling. As are the last few leaves that finally give way to winter.
Check out inspiring quotes and breathtaking images of autumn leaves below.
“Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.”
― William Allingham, “Day & Night Songs”
“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.”
― Albert Schweitzer
“There's never been a better time to let the leaves of mediocrity fall from your tree of life.”
― David Ault
“Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.”
― Shira Tamir
“Autumn is a season of desperate hopes. The leaves are souls begging to turn life on pause. Begging to stop, begging to take a break, hiding under smiles and childish words.”
― Teodora Savu, Listen to the Leaves
“But I miss you most of all
My darling
When autumn leaves
Start to fall,”
― “Autumn Leaves,” lyrics by Johnny Mercer
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
― Rabindranath Tagore
“Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go?”
― John B. Tabb
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