[Enjo=
ying a long Wisconsin autumn and felt like Humpty Dumpty, who also had a gr=
eat fall. Here are some thoughts and sentiments of famous people abou=
t this time of year.]
“As long as autumn lasts, I won’t have enough hands, canvas o=
r colors to paint the beautiful things that I see.”=
(Vincent van Gogh)
“I cann=
ot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in =
the house."
(Nathaniel Hawthorne)
“Come, little leaves," said the Wind one day. "Come to=
the meadows with me and play. Put on your dresses of red and gold; for Sum=
mer is past, and the days grow cold.”
(George Coope=
r)
“Is not this a true autu=
mn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nat=
ure harmonize. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees a=
re putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew th=
e ground, that one’s very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and=
air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless =
spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bir=
d I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”
(George Eliot)
“And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood=
=2E”
(William Cullen Bryant)
“But frost, like the crystallized dreams of autum=
n, began to coat the clearing with its sugar glaze.”
(Victoria Logue)
“I loved=
autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just =
for the beauty of it.”
=
(Lee Maynard)
“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the=
farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.=
”
(Henry Beston)
~~
Dr Bob Griffin
[email protected] www.grif.net
"Jesus Knows Me=
, This I Love!"