As someone who likes to spend as much time as possible in woodlands, come rain or shine, there are two quotes from the American naturalist John Burroughs that I think about often. The first: “I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” The second: “The walk to take today is the walk you took yesterday. You will not find just the same things.”
The latter never seems more true than during autumn, when the trees put on their greatest show; their leaves turning from green to yellow, then orange and red, before falling to the ground in their final act of seasonal surrender, crunching underfoot, and nourishing new life as they decompose into the earth.
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