Autumn Quote by George Monbiot

The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed…

— Charles Dickens

“The growth patterns of mushrooms are difficult to view since they come and go so quickly, appearing and disappearing overnight as if by magic.…

— John Rush

Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.

— Margaret Atwood

The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky of weathered…

— James Carlos Blake

What was once dormant is now a Creeping Thing

— Ishmael Reed

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Flute Notes from a Reedy Pond" Now coldness comes sifting down, layer after layer, To our bower at the lily root. Overhead the old…

— Sylvia Plath

Wherever there were horses or ponies the mushrooms always sprang up.

— Edna O'Brien

“Wild geese fly south, creaking like anguished hinges; along the riverbank the candles of the sumacs burn dull red. It's the first week of…

— Margaret Atwood

“Quinnipeague in August was a lush green place where inchworms dangled from trees whose leaves were so full that the eaten parts were barely…

— Barbara Delinsky

The last cobwebs of fog in the black firtrees are flakes of white ash in the world's hearth.

— Denise Levertov

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

— Thomas Carlyle