Autumn Gardens - Inspiring Images and Quotes


 
"There is a harmony in autumn,
and a luster in its sky..."


Percy Bysshe Shelley




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

Emily Bronte
 



"Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn."

Elizabeth Lawrence


 

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it...."

George Eliot
 
 
 
"Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits."

Samuel Butler
 
 
Photos by Jan Johnsen
 


 
"I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air."

Nathaniel Hawthorne



 

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  1. Hello Jan. My name is Nathan, I have own a landscape design and consulting company in Charlotte, NC. I was just looking through several design blogs and came across yours... You have a gift, I love your work. Keep it up!

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  2. Thank you Nathan! and as someone in the same business, I want to encourage you to continue making the natural world more beautiful for people...you enhance their connection to nature through design.

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  3. Thanks, Daniel...what does meh mean?

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