I was hoping to arrive
in time to see the last of the autumn colour here in Cheshire
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| Dunham Massey |
‘No spring nor summer
beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.’ John Donne, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
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| Tatton Park |
‘I cannot endure to
waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.’
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American
Notebooks
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| Delamere Forest |
‘There is something
incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.’
Joe L. Wheeler
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| Dunham Massey |
‘Autumn carries more
gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.’ Jim Bishop
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| Neumann's Flash, Northwich Community Woodlands |
‘The leaves fall, the
wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into
its winter wools.’ Henry Beston
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| Tatton Park |
‘Autumn is the
mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.’ Samuel
Butler
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| Northwich Community Woodlands |
‘The tints of
autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter,
frost.’ John Greenleaf Whittier
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| Tatton Park |
‘And I rose / In rainy
autumn / And walked abroad in a shower of all my days...’ Dylan
Thomas, Collected
Poems
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| Dunham Massey |
‘Autumn that year
painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the
days were clear and crisp under harvest skies.’ Sharon Kay Penman, Time and
Chance
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| Dunham Massey |
‘Now Autumn’s fire burns slowly along the
woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.’ William Allingham
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| Delamere Forest |
‘Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded
to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive
autumns.’ George Eliot
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| Dunham Massey |
‘For man, autumn is a time of harvest,
of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering
abroad.’ Edwin Way America
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