“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.”
“Once as I looked up I saw a big, pure drop of rain slip from leaf to leaf of a clematis vine. The thought occurred to me that it was just such quick, unexpected, commonplace, specific things that poets and other observers jot down in their note-books.”
Wallace Stevens
more infosource: Journal entry dated July 18, 1899, in The Letters of Wallace Stevens (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966), 29.
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category: leaf, nature, observation, poetry, rain, vine
medium: Journal
“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
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