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The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow. -- Black Elk
The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing. -- Rumi
Did you know you get one happy day for every one you catch?... One happy day for every falling leaf you catch" -sam -- Maggie Stiefvater
How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leaves grow. -- Amit Ray
How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself. -- Brian Andreas
Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time. -- Neil Young
the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves -- Lucille Clifton
Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born. -- Ernest Hemingway
Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path. -- Hermann Hesse
The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong; All seasons sweet, but autumn best of all. The squirrels in their silver fur will fall Like falling leaves, like fruit, before your shot. -- Elinor Wylie
I pride myself on how little space I take up. I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete with a translucent spine and brittle veins, blowing away in a stiff wind, up, up, up into a crisp blue sky, -- Julie Gregory
I have no wit, no words, no tears; My heart within me like a stone Is numb'd too much for hopes or fears; Look right, look left, I dwell alone; I lift mine eyes, but dimm'd with grief No everlasting hills I see; My life is in the falling leaf: O Jesus, quicken me. -- Christina Rossetti
What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair! -- James Russell Lowell
The falling leaves drift by the window The autumn leaves of red and gold.... I see your lips, the summer kisses The sunburned hands, I used to hold Since you went away, the days grow long And soon I'll hear ol' winter's song. But I miss you most of all my darling, When autumn leaves start to fall. -- Johnny Mercer
Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and of snow, all easily recognized by the human ear, and every word evoked by the falling leaf and drinking deer, beside a thousand other facts so small and spoken by the stream in so low a voice the human ear cannot hear them. -- John Muir
Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon to its prospect. The oriental tale is not too vast. Pearls dropping from trees are only falling leaves in autumn. The palace that grew up in a night merely awakens a wish to live in it. The impossibilities of fifty years are the commonplaces of five. -- Robert Aris Willmott
Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf. -- William H. Gass
One happy day for every falling leaf you catch. Sam's voice was low. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Kings are falling like leaves this autumn. -- George R. R. Martin
Autumn brings the falling of leaves and cool days. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling? -- John Muir
Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place, and I can picture it after all these days. -- Taylor Swift
I wish I understood the beauty in leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful as we go? -- David Ignatow
The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one. -- Edward Fitzgerald
Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling likethey're falling in love with the ground. -- Andrea Gibson
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Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse's flowers will not last, Nurses to their graves are gone, But the prams go rolling on. -- W. H. Auden
All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain. -- Martha Gellhorn
What was it Catelyn Stark had called them, that night at Bitterbridge? The knights of summer. And now it was autumn and they were falling like leaves... -- George R. R. Martin
Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn. -- Eckhart Tolle
Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves. -- Matsuo Basho

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