“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like Silence, listening
To silence.”
Thomas Hood (1799–1845) British writer
Ode. Autmn http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_5.htm#195b, st. 1 (1827). <br class="br">1820s
“It is on some, but not all, of these misty autumn day-breaks that one may hear the chorus of the quail. The silence is suddenly broken by a dozen contralto voices, no longer able to restrain their praise of the day to come.”
— Aldo Leopold, book A Sand County Almanac
“September: The Choral Copse”, p. 53.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "August: The Green Pasture," "September: The Choral Copse," "October: Smoky Gold," and "October: Red Lanterns"
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