Every Leaf Speaks Bliss

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Below are a few autumn photos and quotes. I hope you enjoy them.

"It is only her in large portions of Canada that wonderous second wind, the Indian summer, attains its amplitude and heavenly perfection, the temperatures; the sunny haze; the mellow, rich delicate, almost flavoured air: Enough to live -- enough to merely be." ~ Eleanor Myers Jewett

"Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn." ~ Elizabeth Lawrence

"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree." ~ Emily Bronte

"Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods. And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt."
~ William Allingham

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." ~ Albert Camus

"A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart." ~ Hal Borland

"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay." ~ Robert Browning

"For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad." ~ Edwin Way Teale

"Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem."~ Jack Kerouac

"A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long." ~ e. e. cummins