In the summer heat the reapers say, “We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran Autumn Her Leaves Season Seasons Snow Summer Winter

...I'm just beginning to understand how kind you are.

~ Felix Salten

Felix Salten Death Leaves Winter

It's like raking leaves in the wind.

~ Charlie Raymond

Charlie Raymond Challenging Times Fall Hard Hard To Do Leaves Metaphor Raking

He'd grown unused to woods like this. He'd become accustomed to the Northwest, evergreen and shaded dark. Here he was surrounded by soft leaves, not needles; leaves that carried their deaths secretly inside them, that already heard the whispers of Autumn. Roots and branches that knew things.

~ Michael Montoure

Michael Montoure Animism Autumn Leaves Pretty Prose Swooning Over Sentences Trees Woods

I was drinking in the surroundings: air so crisp you could snap it with your fingers and greens in every lush shade imaginable offset by autumnal flashes of red and yellow.

~ Wendy Delsol

Wendy Delsol Autumn Crisp Fall Imagine Leaf Leaves Orange Outdoors Outside Red

The air had a cool crispness to it and the leaves on the trees had begun turning yellow and red.

~ Carla Reighard

Carla Reighard Autumn Leaves Fall Leaves

The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp.

~ Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman Autumn Autumn Leaves Fall Leaves

Wind warns November’s done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, Web-winged and furious.

~ Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath Autumn Bat Bats Dialogue Over A Ouija Board Fall Foliage Leaves November Ouija Wind

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

~ William Allingham

William Allingham Autumnal Sonnet Fall Leaves

A gust of wind rattles the window, and I look out. Leaves are whooshing all over the place, flying past horizontally as if they have engines of their own.

~ Kate Messner

Kate Messner Fall Leaves Wind

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;Lengthen night and shorten day;Every leaf speaks bliss to meFluttering from the autumn tree.I shall smile when wreaths of snowBlossom where the rose should grow;I shall sing when night’s decayUshers in a drearier day.

~ Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë Fall Leaves

Autumn flings her fiery cloak over the sumac, beech and oak.

~ Susan Lendroth

Susan Lendroth Autumn Fall Fall Leaves Leaves Oak October

Thank you leaf blowers, for making me look like the world's lamest Ghostbuster. I ain't afraid of no leaves.

~ Jimmy Fallon

Jimmy Fallon Fall Funny Ghostbusters Humor Leaves

Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

~ H. Jackson Brown

H. Jackson Brown Love Shaving Leaves

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

~ Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges Failure Next Leaves

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau Myself Earth Leaves

He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.

~ Edward Wood

Edward Wood Nothing Will Leaves

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

~ Joel Edgerton

Joel Edgerton Job New Leaves

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

~ William Blake

William Blake Dream Leaves Among

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

~ Richard Cecil

Richard Cecil Day Worst Leaves

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli Way Always Leaves

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

~ Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri Men Like Leaves