“The leaves do not change color from the blighting touch of the frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the fruit has been ripened and their work is done. And their splendid change of coloring is but their graceful and beautiful surrender of life, when they have finished their summer offering of service to God and man.” MenHas BeensDoneBeautifulFallProcessNaturalColorSummerFruitFinishedSurrenderOfferingDecaySplendidFrostService To God Author:Tryon Edwards
“Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and colour, give a promise of the glory and beauty which encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams.” GivingHumansCountrySometimesDreamLightEyeBeautifulLyingGivenHoursPromiseGloryBoundsCloudsColourSunsetHorizonWakingFar AwaySplendidHuman EyesBeautiful Country Book:Under the Sunset: And Other Stories Source: Under the Sunset: And Other Stories
“Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.” MenHas BeensBeautifulNightLossSkyMoonAnxietyShiningDisasterMarsSplendidTrinityVenus Author:Janet Flanner