50 quotes for welcoming autumn
Capturing the essence of fall can be hard to put into words. When the heat of summer transitions into crisp, brisk air and colorful foliage you know that autumn is knocking at the door. But how do you express this seasonal switch in the right way? To help you capture the essence of fall, here are 50 famous quotes, complete with a range of autumn-themed templates, perfect for your next seasonal project.
- Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower, and every pumpkin a lantern." - Albert Camus, French philosopher and novelist
- Autumn … the year's last, loveliest smile." - John Howards Bryant, American poet
- Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and essayist
- How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days." - John Burroughs, American naturalist
- "Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree." - Emily Brontë, English writer
- "As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see." - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter
- “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” - Henry David Thoreau, American naturalist and essayist
- “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."- John Donne, English poet
- I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house." - Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist
- “Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”- Chad Sugg, musician and writer
- “Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!”- Humbert Wolfe, British poet
- “Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?”- Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright
- “There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.” - Joe L. Wheeler, American author
- “Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.” - Samuel Butler, English novelist and critic
- “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” - L.M. Montgomery, Canadian author
- “Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.” - Delia Owens, American author and zoologist
- “The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.” - Charlotte Bates, American writer
- “Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.” - Faith Baldwin, American writer
- “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, author
- “Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” - Jim Bishop, American journalist and author
- “Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.” - Shira Tamir, writer
- “If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.” - Victoria Erickson, poet, author, and teacher
- “I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.” - Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher
- “It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” - Sarah Addison Allen, American author
- “But I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall.” - Frank Sinatra, American singer
- “I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.” - Ann Drake, author
- “Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.” - Winston Graham, English novelist
- “I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.” - Lee Maynard, American novelist
- “I saw old Autumn in the misty morn. Stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.” - Thomas Hood, English poet and writer
- “And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and autumn was awakened.” - Raquel Franco, poet and author
- “Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love — that makes life and nature harmonize.” - George Eliot, English novelist and poet
- “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, fictional character created by English author A. A. Milne and English illustrator E. H. Shepard
- “The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.” - Jane Hirshfield, American poet and essayist
- “In autumn, don’t go to jewelers to see gold; go to the parks!”- Mehmet Murat Ildan, turkish playwright
- “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, American novelist and writer
- “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, American author
- “And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.” - Virginia Woolf, English writer
- “Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.” - Elizabeth Lawrence, American actress
- “And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” - Oscar Wilde, Irish author and poet
- “There is a subtle magic in the falling of old leaves.” - Avijeet Das, poet and writer
- “The leaves are changing; I feel poetry in the air.” - Laura Jaworski, author and artist
- “Falling in love with October, leaves descending to the ground, orange, magenta, green and brown. The cool, crisp breezes in the air—autumn season must be here.” - Charmaine J. Forde, Barbadian poet and author
- “Another fall, another turned page.” - Wallace Stegner, American novelist and writer
- “Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.” - Hal Borland, American writer and journalist
- “There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman, and we quoted E.E. Cummings back and forth.” - Roger Ebert, American film critic
- “The falling leaves drift by the window, the autumn leaves of red and gold.”- Johnny Mercer, American lyricist and songwriter
- “I am falling in love again with autumn, the smell of warm cider, the orange-color leaves, pumpkins everywhere and the crisp breeze.” - Charmaine J. Forde, Barbadian poet and author
- “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, pseudonym for the writing team of Anstey Spraggan and Dimmi Khan
- “Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.” - Mary Russell Mitford, English essayist
- “Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.” - Stanley Horowitz, poet
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