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“Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn--that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness--that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
― A.A. Milne

“Even if you are a small forest surviving off of moon alone, your light is extraordinary.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“There's an endless autumn in me,
scenting my thoughts like campfire smoke.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, Field Guide to the Haunted Forest

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”
― Edvard Munch

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”
― John Burroughs

“There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.”
― J. R. R. Tolkien

“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”
― Jane Austen

“But where our hearts truly lie is in peace and quiet and good tilled earth.”
― JRR Tolkien

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato