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CONTEMPLATING LEAVES NOW

“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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