“Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness then daffodils.”
Cyril Connolly
more infosource: The Unquiet Grave (New York: Persea Books, 1981), 17.
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category: autumn, cycle of life, leaf, nature
medium: nonfiction
notes: Ernest Hemingway described The Unquiet Grave as “a book which, no matter how many readers it will ever have, will never have enough.”
“…if your boy is a poet, horse manure can only mean flowers to him; which is, of course, what horse manure has always been about.”
Ray Bradbury
more infosource: Dandelion Wine (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978), x.
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category: cycle of life, flower, manure, nature, poet
medium: Fiction
“Falling leaves return to their roots.”
Adeline Yen Mah
more infosource: Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter (London: M. Joseph, 1997), 271.
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category: compost, cycle of life, environment, leaf, nature, proverb, root, tree
medium: memoir
via: Louise Buckley“The worm fattens on the apple, the young goose fattens on the wormy fruit, the man fattens on the young goose, the worm awaits the man.”
E. B. White
more infosource: “Cold Weather,” in One Man’s Meat (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1944), 345.
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category: apple, compost, cycle of life, farm, fruit, goose, nature, recycle, sustainability, worm
medium: essay
notes: White wrote this essay in January 1943.
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