Even if it’s hard to get your mind off the hot sun’s touch, the long days on the beach, the crazy late-night fun, welcome the arrival of cozy, warm autumn with open arms. Make the most of fall and enjoy all that comes with it: a vivid colourful picture of nature that will delight our eyes and soul. Below you’ll find some of our favourite fall quotes that remind us why autumn is so inspiring.
“Is this not a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – that makes life and nature harmonize.” George Eliot
“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” John Burrows
“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves.” Humbert Wolfe
“Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings.” Terri Guillemets
“The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens the apples, the other turns them to cider.” Jane Hirshfield
“I was drinking in the surroundings: air so crisp you could snap it with your fingers and greens in every lush shade imaginable offset by autumnal flashes of red and yellow. ” Wendy Delsol, Stork
“That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air … Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes had been wiped clean by summer. ” Wallace Stegner
“Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.” Elizabeth Lawrence
“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” Oscar Wilde
“Only lovers / see the fall / a signal end to endings / a gruffish gesture alerting / those who will not be alarmed / that we begin to stop / in order simply / to begin / again.” Maya Angelou
“I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.” Leif Enger
“Never let me lose what I have gained, and adorn the branches of your river with leaves of my estranged Autumn.” Federico García Lorca
“Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.” Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
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“Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings.” Terri Guillemets
“There is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees—as if we are all to be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again.” Ruth Ahmed
“Oh your sweet disposition/And my wide-eyed gaze/We’re singing in the car getting lost upstate/Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place/And I can picture it after all these days.” Taylor Swift
“It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.” P.D. James, A Taste for Death
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.” Emily Brontë
“The tints of autumn…a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost. ” John Greenleaf Whittier
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of autumn. ” John Muir
“There is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees–as if we are all to be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again.” Ruth Ahmed
“Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.” Remy de Gourton
“October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn!” Rainbow Rowell
“There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen as if it could not be, as if it had not been! ” Percy Shelley
“Let misty autumn be our part! / The twilight of the year is sweet: / Where shadow and the darkness meet / Our love, a twilight of the heart / Eludes a little time’s deceit. ” Ernest Dowson
“Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few. September, November And these few precious days I’ll spend with you. ” Frank Sinatra
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.” Friedrich Nietzsche
“It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing your face.” Anita Diamant
“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” Chad Sugg
“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” Oscar Wilde
“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.” Lauren Destefano
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” Henry David Thoreau
“A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.” E.E. Cummings
“Don’t you love New York in the fall?” Nora Ephron
“The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves. We have had our summer evenings; now for October eves!” Humbert Wolfe
“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” John Burroughs
“The first breath of autumn was in the air, a prodigal feeling, a feeling of wanting, taking, and keeping before it is too late.” J. L. Carr
“…I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. So I have spent almost all the daylight hours in the open air.” Nathaniel Hawthorne
“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.” Virginia Woolf
“I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.” Lee Maynard
“Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.” Hal Borland
“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize.” George Eliot
“If the leaves are changing, I feel poetry in the air.” Laura Jaworski
“Autumn would come to this place of welcome, this place I would know to be home. Autumn would come and the air would grow cool, dry and magic, as it does that time of the year.” Henry Rollins
“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” Chad Sugg
“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.” Stanley Horowitz
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns.” George Eliot
“Autumn leaves are falling, filling up the streets; golden colors on the lawn, nature’s trick or treat!” Rusty Fischer
“I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived. And when it was time to leave, gracefully it knew life was a gift.” Dodinsky
“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”Lauren Destefano
“It was a beautiful, bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.” Diana Gabaldon
“Autumn leaves are falling, filling up the streets; golden colors on the lawn, nature’s trick or treat! ” Rusty Fischer
