Fall Quote by May Sarton

Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even…

— May Sarton

“Grief lingers, and the ache of loss; those things don't change. But seeping into every leaf, a little guilty burns away each autumn, and…

— Sean Stewart

Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing…

— Kathleen Raine

My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mind. I found cheerfulness to…

— George MacDonald

“Trees raised their naked, mottled branches to the sky like mourners stilled in attitudes of grief.”

— Arundhati Roy

Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if…

— Gautama Buddha

It is only by spring that the death of the autumns returns. What about winter, which is death? When the pure snow white covers…

— Sorin Cerin

“Lights Out" I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deep Forest where all must lose Their way, however straight, Or winding,…

— Edward Thomas

“Trees do mourn the loss of their leaves. This fall, take a moment to listen to their mourning and observe how easily they overcome…

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

“The tree is burning on the autumn noon That builds each year the leaf and bark again. Though frost will strip it raw and…

— Donald Hall

What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.

— Martha Gellhorn

Trees have about them something beautiful and attractive even to the fancy, since they cannot change their places, are witnesses of all the changes…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt