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Autumn And Fall Quotes For Changing Seasons

Autumn is coming with it’s changing colors and colder evenings. Gather up your hot chocolates and start to get ready for darker days, with these bright thoughts and quotes. For those of us who love the sweater weather and the crisp autumnal air, now is our time.

Long walks through the golden, orange, yellow and red woods with warming pubs in the countryside to snuggle in. Heading to the nearest pumpkin patch and making plans for Halloween.

Autumn / Fall Quotes To Make You Smile

John Donne No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
John Donne – No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
George Eliot If I were a bird, I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot – If I were a bird, I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns.
Truman Capote Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
Truman Capote – Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
“The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.” – Charlotte Bates
“The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.” – Charlotte Bates
Sarah Addison Allen It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.
Sarah Addison Allen – It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.
Elizabeth Lawrence Everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.
Elizabeth Lawrence Everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.
“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” – Chad Sugg
“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” – Chad Sugg
Alexander Smith There are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.
Alexander Smith – There are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.
Faith Baldwin Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin – Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Raquel Franco And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep, and autumn was awakened.
Raquel Franco – And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep, and autumn was awakened.
Lauren Destefano 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 – 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.
John Burroughs How beautifully the leaves grow old! How full of light and color are their last days!
John Burroughs – How beautifully the leaves grow old! How full of light and color are their last days!
Shira Tamir Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.
Shira Tamir – Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.
Lee Maynard I loved autumn, the season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.
Lee Maynard – I loved autumn, the season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.

Autumn & Fall Quotes To Inspire

Wrapping up warm and hiding from the autumn chill is not an option with the low sun and weekends for blackberry picking, warm mulled cider in cups, watching fireworks displays with the kids. Visiting pumpkin patches for the perfect Halloween display in your front yard. If you are trick or treating with friends and hoping to get the best fancy dress outfit of them all.

A crackling bonfire in your village will bring neighbors together to celebrate the longer nights and colder days. If you love the sunny days with a little nip in the air then you are an autumn creature. Someone who loves the ripening berries on the trees, the nuts falling to the floor and color returning to the leaves, before they fall to the ground and crunch under foot.

Henry David Thoreau I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David Thoreau – I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Hal Borland Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.
Hal Borland – Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.
William Wordsworth Wild is the music of the autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.
William Wordsworth – Wild is the music of the autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.
“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
“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
“The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.” – Jane Hirshfield, The Heat of Autumn
“The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.” – Jane Hirshfield, The Heat of Autumn
F. Scott Fitzgerald Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
F. Scott Fitzgerald – Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
Emily Brontë Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
Emily Brontë – Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
Oscar Wilde And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.
Oscar Wilde – And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.
Rusty Fischer Autumn leaves are falling, filling up the streets; golden colors on the lawn, nature's trick or treat!
Rusty Fischer – Autumn leaves are falling, filling up the streets; golden colors on the lawn, nature’s trick or treat!
Terri Guillemets Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year's end and day's beginnings.
Terri Guillemets – Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings.
William Cullen Bryant Autumn ... the year's last, loveliest smile.
William Cullen Bryant – Autumn … the year’s last, loveliest smile.
Henry Beston The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.
Henry Beston – The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.
Percy Bysshe Shelley There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky.
Percy Bysshe Shelley There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky.
Albert Camus Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus – Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Victoria Erickson If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.
Victoria Erickson – If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.
Stanley Horowitz Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.
Stanley Horowitz – Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.
Helen Hunt Jackson September days are here, with summer's best of weather and autumn's best of cheer.
Helen Hunt Jackson – September days are here, with summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.
Ann Drake I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.
Ann Drake – I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.
Vincent Van Gogh As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.
Vincent Van Gogh- As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.
L.M. Montgomery I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
L.M. Montgomery – I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
Virginia Woolf And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves ...
Virginia Woolf – And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves …
George Eliot Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love — that makes life and nature harmonize.
George Eliot – Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love — that makes life and nature harmonize.
Humbert Wolfe We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!
Humbert Wolfe – We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!

It is lovely to remember those long, hot Summer days which we all thought would last forever, but Autumn still holds a candle in my heart. The temptation to hold off putting the heating back on, trying to wrap up in warm blankets to keep the cold out. Plenty of hot drinks and warming autumnal meals with the family.

Nature has an autumn harvest to offer in the fall and we hope to have shared some of that magic with you all.

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