Autumn is my favourite season of the year.
It’s difficult to put into my own words why I like it so much, so I’m not even going to try. Recently, however, I came across a really wonderful quote on the beauty of autumn in a James Clear newsletter.
The quote itself comes from inventor and writer Lin Yutang:
“I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content. From a knowledge of those limitations and its richness of experience emerges a symphony of colours, richer than all, its green speaking of life and strength, its orange speaking of golden content and its purple of resignation and death.”
My Country and My People
Imran Idris 