A season of loss and letting go, it’s also a season of reaping, of plenitude and the bounty of harvest. Of course, it’s a season of endings: “Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go” – unknown. I also love a line from the poet Rumi - “Be like a tree, let the dead leaves drop.” Be like a tree – yes.Īutumn can make us feel a whole palette of emotions. If I were a bird…imagining ourselves into the perspective of wildlife and elements of the natural world is also a great technique for the writer, an exercise in empathy, in the virtues of gaining a birds’ eye perspective. “Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns”, wrote George Eliot.
In some passages we see the writer becoming nature. It’s a season beloved in writing for all ages: “It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and best of all, leaping into leaves!”, declared Winnie the Pooh in Pooh’s Grand Adventure.
TRUE AUTUMN FULL
As Wordsworth wrote: “Wild is the music of the autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.”Ī love of leaves of course leaves its mark – all sizes and shapes and colours pirouette through the pages of books: “And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves…”, mused Virginia Woolf. And what bounties writers have discovered outdoors. So I have spent almost all daylight hours in the open air,” said Nathaniel Hawthorne. “I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. The great outdoors and the natural world in Autumn is celebrated in much of the literature about the season. How glorious it is to go on an autumn walk as the world turns colour, a welcome respite in a turbulent world. “Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – that makes life and nature harmonise”, declared George Eliot.Īutumn has inspired writers throughout the ages to some of their finest words, with the glory of its colours, the smell of roasting chestnuts, the pleasure of crunching through leaves during an autumnal walk.
TRUE AUTUMN SERIES
It’s also a great exercise in observation and being sensitive to change – the seasons are a gift to the nature writer and the next masterclass in my nature writing series Writing the seasons will inspire participants to attune the eyes, ears and pen to the beauty of nature in autumn both in cities and the countryside, to the season which brings such a feast for the senses and fuel for creativity. While the entire line is worth wishlisting, these are the items that made us click "add to cart." Trend No.Writing about the seasons is a wonderful way of feeling time, becoming grounded in time and place, crucial skills of any writer. Plus, we've already scoured the entire Fall Edit and done some legwork for you. And the array of rich neutrals and textures built for layering make creating new combinations a snap.Īdding to the ease, thousands of these inspired pieces ship fast and free. Taking cues from the inherent tranquility and earthy elements of windblown landscapes like Iceland and Scotland, each item is curated to complement your existing pieces year-round while still making a bold statement this fall.
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