"And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things.."
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
God's Grandeur
I can't seem to shake off my attachment to the beautiful scenery of autumn leaves that I was fortunate to see last month. The vibrant, fiery colours seemed to shout out their beauty that one has no choice but to drink it all in, till the "cup runneth over." The colours are warm even if they signal the coming colder months. The leaves call out as a whole, not individually, even though each leaf is actually very nicely shaped in itself. No wonder Albert Camus reflected, "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." How true! A tree that holds a whole bunch of fiery flowers!
It would be nice to seek these type of scenery out again and again in the future.
Sigh!
