Fall Quotes
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| Photo by Sara Tavares
Sister Sara Tavares
posted these quotes from BookBud Bulletin recently. Enjoy. Also see a special
tip to preserving your fall leaves below.
Delicious
autumn!
My soul is
wedded to it,
And if I
were a bird I’d fly.
About the
earth
Seeking the
successive autumns.
George Eliot
Every leaf speaks
Bliss to me.
Fluttering
From the Autumn tree.
Emily Bronte, “Fall
Leaves, Fall”
Everyone must take
Time to sit still
&
Watch the leaves turn.
Elizabeth Lawrence
Autumn is the
mellower season,
& what we lose in flowers
We more than
Gain In fruits.
Samuel Butler
“Aprils have never
meant much to me,
Autumns seem that
Season of beginning,
Spring.”
Truman Capote, Breakfast
at Tiffanys
Fall colors are funny.
They’re so bright and intense and
Beautiful. It’s like nature is trying
to
Fill you up with color, to saturate
you
So you can stockpile it before winter
Turns everything muted and dirty.
Siobhan Vivian, “Same
Difference”
Autumn,
the year’s last loveliest smile.
William Cullen Bryant
I would rather sit on a pumpkin,
And have it all to myself,
Than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David Thoreau
Preserving your leaves
My mother had a trick she used to preserve
the color in fall foliage leaves, and I have since seen this technique
suggested in old folk formula books. It really works, and the leaves stay on
the branches and keep their color for weeks. I’m happy to share this tip, and
use it myself. Here is her secret:
All you need is a little bit of vegetable
glycerin, water, and newly cut branches with colorful leaves. Just put about
1/2 a teaspoon into a vase full of water, stir, and then add the branches. With
this, the leaves stay on the branches and keep their color for weeks. Refresh
the water and glycerin every week. Pure vegetable glycerin is available in
health food stores.
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