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Within the October 1862 factor of The Atlantic, Henry David Thoreau argued that foliage was once now not getting the eye it deserved. “The autumnal alternate of our woods has now not made a deep influence on our personal literature but,” he wrote. “October has rarely tinged our poetry.”
These days, autumn will get its due: Many poets have written about falling leaves; Starbucks serves pumpkin spice lattes; a humor essay from 2009 that spews autumnal pleasure has turn out to be one thing of a contemporary vintage. However it’s nonetheless price sparing a second of appreciation all through what Thoreau referred to as “the month of painted leaves.”
On Fall
Pictures of the season (From 2022)
Via Henry David Thoreau
“An excellent many, who’ve spent their lives in towns, and feature by no means chanced to return into the rustic at this season, have by no means noticed this, the flower, or quite the ripe fruit, of the yr.”
Pumpkins: An American Obsession
Via Alexia Fernández Campbell
The loved vegetable that fed New England’s ravenous settlers now produces greater than $100 million in gross sales. (From 2016)
Nonetheless Curious?
Different Diversions
P.S.
In 2017, Julie Beck requested Colin Nissan, the writer of that well-known McSweeney’s fall essay, what he’d say to haters of the season. “I simply don’t understand how you’ll be able to hate it,” he stated. “It’s comfy, there’s scrumptious meals, the foliage is gorgeous. There are integrated actions to fall. Possibly it’s the individuals who love summer time such a lot and so they really feel like fall simply manner iciness’s coming. However fall is its personal beast. You simply need to relish it.”
— Isabel