You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the…

The leaves had fallen from the trees and lay crisp and crackling beneath his feet. Picking one up he marveled, not for the first…

— Louise Penny

After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of…

— Wallace Stevens

The trees bathed their great heads in the waves of the morning, while their roots were planted deep in gloom; save where on the…

— George MacDonald

A narrow pond would form in the orchard, water clear as air covering grass and black leaves and fallen branches, all around it black…

— Marilynne Robinson

“So many leaves have fallen on my life. Some settled nicely to rest, but most fell, withered to bitter cold and drifted on. But,…

— Anonymous

But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for…

— Anonymous

I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment…

— Louis Leakey

I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked chess, I…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I have discovered fallen trees across my path and have possessed neither the strength to move them nor the patience or tenacity to find…

— Chris Murray

Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of a boulder, and paint…

— R. Scott Bakker

A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all…

— Charles Dickens

The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They're wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they are by…

— Gregory David Roberts

At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could have predicted…

— Alain de Botton

But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that…

— Julius Lester

Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox…

— Richard Preston