“For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops, but during the seventh year let the land lie unplowed and unused. Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what is left. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.” (Exodus 23:10-11)
“And if by these things you are not turned to Me, but act with hostility against Me, then I will act with hostility against you; and I, even I, will strike you seven times for your sins.” – (Leviticus 26:23-24)
“Write them on the doorframes of your houses and your gates, so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.” – (Deuteronomy 11:21)
“And all at once summer collapsed into Fall.” – (Oscar Wilde)
“December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory…”
― (John Geddes A Familiar Rain)