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Quote by Hal Borland
Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night; and thus he would never know the rhythms that are at the heart of life. – Hal Borland

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Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him. – Hal Borland

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Autumn
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Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it – Hal Borland

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It is a delightful pastime to sit in the pleasant sunshine of autumn, and gazing from this little spot of free earth over such a landscape, let the imagination luxuriate amid the thrilling associations of the scene! – H.T. Tuckerman, “San Marino”

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Fall, temperatures, fall, fall! Let the weather mellow and the year fall into peacefulness. – Terri Guillemets

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It was one of the loveliest days in early autumn, and the general atmosphere had a tendency to subdue every feeling of the heart, and threw me in a thoughtful mood. – Charles Lanman, “Musings,” 1840

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