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1

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November."

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Henry David Thoreau

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"The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July."

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Sarah Addison Allen

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“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”

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John Clare

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“So dull and dark are the November days. The lazy mist high up the evening curled, and now the morn quite hides in the smoke and haze; the place we occupy seems all the world.”

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Charmaine J. Forde

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“Don't wait until the fourth Thursday in November, to sit with family and friends to give thanks.

Make every day a day of Thanksgiving!”

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Gregory F. Lenz

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“Welcome sweet November, the season of senses and my favorite month of all.”

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7

Albert Camus

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“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”

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Sarah Addison Allen

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“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”

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Lauren DeStefano

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“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”

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Truman Capote

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“Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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Chad Sugg

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“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”

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Nora Ephron

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“Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”

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Jim Bishop

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“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”

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Emily Dickinson

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“November always seems to me the Norway of the year.”

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Sir Walter Scott

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“November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.”

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Aldo Leopold

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"The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on... A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind."

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18

Anne Bosworth Greene

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“November at its best—with a sort of delightful menace in the air.”

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Cyril Connolly

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“Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.”

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Gladys Taber

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“Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moon rise.”

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Maribeth B Jones is the Design Director of Country Living where she creates seasonal content full of warmth and playfulness. When she’s not wrangling chickens for a cover shoot you can find her collecting vintage oil portraits or flipping pancakes in her sunny, yellow kitchen with her two chatty daughters.

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