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49 Beautiful Autumn Quotes

Autumn is a time for change, when the leaves are no longer green but instead they turn to yellow before they fall to the ground. This season has many different meanings for people, and it’s time that it had its own quotes to go with it! Here are some of the most beautiful Autumn quotes.

 

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”––Khalil Gibran

“Fall is my favorite time of year. To me, it exemplifies the victory of the spirit over matter.” – Stephen King

“We welcome autumn as nature’s farewell kiss to another growing season.” -– Robert Lee Frost

“The leaves will soon be gone and winter winds will howl but when I look at you, my heart sings, for I remember that spring will surely come again.”– John Henry Jewett

“Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.” — Delia Owens

“October is the first of all the months, with May coming long after. It is a time for gathering things together both for use and for joy.” –Robert Frost

“Autumn makes everything seem deeper than it really is…and more beautiful.” – John Updike

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. -P.D. James

“The autumn wind begins to blow, the trees to shed their leaves.” – William Shakespeare

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.-Stanley Horowitz

“October is the cruellest month, breeding/ Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/ Memory and desire, stirring/ Dull roots with spring rain.” -T.S Eliot

“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.” – J.K. Rowling

“There is nothing so perfect in nature as an autumn sunset; everything seems at peace and sheds a gentle light on those who watch it. The colors are so rich, deep and warm: such richness can only come from decay. But this same decay requires death, which means there must be life before or else there would never have been any color at all. Autumn reminds us that we cannot hold on too tightly lest we lose all thing beautiful.” -Carrie Fisher

“Mother Nature is God’s art gallery, his exhibit of the beauty he could create if given enough time.  Autumn leaves are proof that God had so much time that He made His art last.” -Edmund Burke

“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?” — George Eliot

“Autumn is when you can walk through the grove as if each step were taken in prayer.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

 

“In autumn think of the long days, and the rich fruits matured by the sun.” – Virgil

“The colorful language of leaves is best read in silence. When we see that our neighbor has donned his spring suit or is clad in his autumnal dress, we read the announcement of a great change which has already taken place within him.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

 

“The Autumnal season puts on its robes of change; The Summer’s sun no longer shines with warmth and flare; The Winter winds are quick, yet not too strong, To shake the trees untimely before their time. ‘Tis then, that I do seek the solace of the wood, And find my peace within a place so soft and hood.” -Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” – L.M Montgomery

“Among all the months that go to make up a year, there is none so lovely as October.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“October has always arrived before I’ve had time to get ready for it.” -Roger Caras

“I’m in love with October.” – Octavia E. Butler

“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon, and then they had popped it in the oven to bake. Somehow, everything on earth was different because of this.” – James Herriot

“It was a beautiful, bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.”– Diana Gabaldon

“No one has found any way to package autumn. There are no special ingredients. It’s just nature doing what it does best – wearing a showy dress in order to be noticed when she gives us the gift of her annual decay and renewal.” – Diane Ackerman

“The beautiful reds, yellows and oranges are the flowers of Mother Nature.” -Michael Wolff

“The leaves are all falling, and they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground.” – Andrea Gibson

“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

“The most beautiful season is that which imparts to the soul a brighter glow, and calls forth richer treasures of thought.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“For those who like autumn, it doesn’t get any better than New England; for those who don’t, it’s just another reminder of nature’s capriciousness.” -John Updike

“My Autumn, / And my first poem.” – Thomas Hardy

“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves…” — Virginia Woolf

“Autumn is the most temperate of all seasons; in fact, I hate winter and have no desire to see it.” – William Dean Howells

“There’s something about autumn that gives you the feeling of looking up at a crystal-clear blue sky on a frosty morning, while breathing in crisp air through dry cracked lips.” – Scott Harrison

“The sun shines weakly through the leafless trees, And all the living things of summer seem a year away. It seems like yesterday when I could look into your eyes: Autumn has come again.” – Patrick Rothfuss

 

“Fall is my favorite time of year. To me, it exemplifies the victory of the spirit over matter.” -Stephen King

“Autumn, the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. “– John Keats

“The miracle of autumn is that even in an ordinary year, there are a few moments of absolute perfection. “– Gail Godwin

 

“The air smells like wine and tobacco, the dew is humid, the wind cool.” -Alphonse Karr

“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

“Autumn brings a certain fullness of character to our lives. It is nature’s way of saying, ‘Have patience; live deep and slowly.'” -– Henry David Thoreau

“If I had no formal training in art, but was asked to make a drawing of autumn, it would be of empty branches against an intense blue sky.” -– Paul Klee

“It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!” — Winnie the Pooh

“The leaves are falling down; It is time for us to go. The summer has passed away, And now the winter days will come. Before we go, let’s play! Let’s find some pretty leaves That are on the trees today.” – George Harrison

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” -Henry David Thoreau

“Is this not a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – that makes life and nature harmonize.”-George Eliot

“The autumn air is a clarifier. The smell of it clears your head and sharpens your senses – colors become brighter, sounds louder, edges more defined, and even smells stronger than before. I just love finding crispness in every season of life, especially autumn.” -Cindy Gerard

“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits”.-Samuel Butler

“When the first leaf falls, something jumps in my heart.” -Julia Ward Howe

 

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