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

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard."

[Give me the splendid silent sun]

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."

[Notebook, Oct. 10, 1842]

Autumn teaches us a valuable lesson. During summer, all the green trees are beautiful. But there is no time of the year when the trees are more beautiful than when they are different colors. Diversity adds beauty to our world.

And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.