Descriptive Essay - The Woods in Autumn -- Descriptive Essay, Descripti

The Woods in Autumn It is not true that the close of a life which ends in a natural fashion---life which is permitted to put on the display of death and to go out in glory---inclines the mind to rest. It is not true of a day ending nor the passing ofthe year, nor of the fall of leaves. Whatever permanent, restless question isnative to men, comes forward most insistent and most loud at such times. Thereare still places where one can discover and describe the spirit of the falling ofleaves. At Fall, the sky which is of so delicate and faint a blue as to containsomething of gentle mockery, and certain more(prenominal) of tenderness, presides at thefall of leaves. There is no air, no breath at all. The leaves are so lightthat they sidle on their going downward, hesitating in that which is not void tothem, and touching at last so intangible to the earth with which they are tomerge, that the gesture is much gentler than a greeting, and even more discr...