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"She prayed to be swallowed into the earth and perhaps reborn as a tree, where the only thing she would be expected to do was grow."
- Hannah Nicole Maehrer
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The land knows you, even when you are lost.
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
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“I notice Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
― Lord Byron
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"The month of half summer, half autumn. Half sophistication, half barbarity."
~ John Lewis-Stempel, Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field, "September"
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“If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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We celebrate the tree that stretches to the sky, but it is the ground we should ultimately thank.
- Becky Chambers, To be Taught, If Fortunate
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When it grows darker, I will still walk by your side just to make sure that you and I walk through the same wood, and the wind that touches my body will whisper my love in your ears.
Abhilasha
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I am the evergreen with fading needles
roots deep in sandy soils
slightly burned from ancient fires
a home to only the survivors
Tenille K. Campbell, I am not a wild strawberry
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(via It's Autumntime Again! 🍂)
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There was a memory in the land. It was all around him. He was walking through it. It whispered to him as he walked…
Robert Holdstock, Lavondyss
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