Autumn Quote by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
“I cannot love evergreens - they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline; they are cut off from the sweetest of all ties with their kind - sympathy. ... I will have no evergreens in my garden; when the inevitable winter comes, every beloved plant and favorite tree shall drop together - no solitary fir left to triumph over the companionship of decay.”
About This Quote
Source Poem: The Seasons, 1820
The speaker rejects evergreens as symbols of unfeeling permanence, preferring the shared decay of seasonal plants.
In simple terms: Evergreens represent cold indifference; the speaker values communal change.
Key Takeaway
Embrace impermanence and shared cycles.
Themes
nature
impermanence
community
death
beauty
Mood
melancholic
reflective
Type
poetic
philosophical
When to use this quote
- garden design
- seasonal planting
- grief processing
- environmental art
Key Concepts
symbolism
philosophy
mortality
Questions to Reflect On
- What does permanence mean to you?
- How do you find comfort in cycles?
A Different Perspective
Evergreens can also symbolize resilience and hope, which the speaker ignores.
![“[ Age Of Trump] was something that I really wanted to do, and I also really wanted it to feel evergreen, so we made a lot of attempts not to bog it down in the campaign fight, even though we were right in the middle of that. I wanted it to be something that could live on and be a conversation…” quote by Ava DuVernay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4e1/ava-duvernay-4018_age_age-of-trump-was-something-that-i-really_651278.jpg)
