"A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?"

Autumn, Day, Easter, Energy

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"A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?"

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"I got my private pilot's license in autumn 1986."

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"Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt."

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"There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

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"A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?"

Hugh Mackay, Australian Psychologist

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"I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence."

Thomas Hood, English Poet

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"Autumn is my favorite season."

Johnny Kelly, American Musician

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"I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn."

Orlando Bloom, English Actor

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"Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?"

Vernon Duke, Russian Composer

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