Autumn in Alaska

"Autumn...The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.” 

                                                                    - Laren DeStefano, Wither

"Autumn... The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground."

                                                       - Andrea Gibson

"Autumn... The year's last, loveliest smile."

                                                            - Williams Cullen Brayant, Indian Summer

"At no other time than autumn does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth."

                                                                      - Maria Rilke, Letters on Cezanne

"There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves."

                                                                   - Joe L. Wheeler

"Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end."

                                                                              - Remy de Gourmont

"Autumn is a second spring, when every leaf is a flower."

                                                           - Albert Camus

"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree."

                                           - Emily Bronte

"I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it."

                                                   - Lee Maynard