the serenity of the world tugging tight the straps of its…

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

— John Muir

“look to the fallen leaves of this season as flowers and remember that we are here on borrowed time, that it is never too…

— Savannah Page

O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!

— Edgar Lee Masters

“Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledge for mankind in polished speeches that are no more than vaporous winds rustling the fallen leaves…

— Goethe

“I listen to the rain talk to the leaves. She tells a story of love and leaving (isn’t that always the story? Isn’t that…

— Emm Roy

Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen leaves with…

— Gunter Grass

The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old,…

— John Updike

“It was one of those autumn mornings which are devoid of melancholy, when the weather seems to be cleaning its house. A broom of…

— Rebecca West

“The stoic contemplates fallen leaves; the epicure rakes them into a loveseat.”

— Bauvard

I am sad, like the hot dust on the streets And the music of fresh fallen leaves Caught in a sliding summer breeze.

— Scott Hastie

“He smelled like fall — not like pumpkin and freshly fallen leaves, but like fall in Florida — salty like the beach air, earthy…

— Kandi Steiner

“Autumn is Nature's last party of the year. And dressing for the occasion, forests don their brightest attire, while the creatures follow suit with…

— Debra Welsh

“The first fallen leaves of the season skitter like vermin across the concrete. You wish they could carry away the refuse that's long been…

— Kirk Jones

“Near the center of the village, on some of those fallen leaves, are trickles of blood. It isn't until the village square that the…

— Carl Novakovich

“If I've learned anything at all from the river it's to let jarring events come and go, that such tiny disruptions have no more…

— Steve Himmer