35 Quotes About Autumn Leaves

Autumn is a favorite time of year for many. From falling leaves to boots and pumpkins, these quotes about autumn leaves capture the seasons changing.

“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.”

“Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.”

“Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?”

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

“Autumn is my favorite season.”

“Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground.”

“Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.”

“Autumn’s the mellow time.”

“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.”

“But I do feel a little teeny right now that I’m just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.”

“By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer’s best of weather And autumn’s best of cheer.”

“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.”

“Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don’t feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.”

“Every year, I travel extensively in the autumn and the spring. I set most of the winter and summer aside for my family and my own tribal relatives. But during that traveling time, I often find myself visiting other native communities around the continent – perhaps a dozen or more each year.”

“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.”

“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.”

“I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.”

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

“If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.”

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

“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”

“My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.”

“No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.”

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”

“Now Autumn’s fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.”

“Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.”

“The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.”

“The spring, summer, is quite a hectic time for people in their lives, but then it comes to autumn, and to winter, and you can’t but help think back to the year that was, and then hopefully looking forward to the year that is approaching.”

“The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.”

“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!”

“There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air.”

“Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.”

“We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.”

“When autumn darkness falls, what we will remember are the small acts of kindness: a cake, a hug, an invitation to talk, and every single rose. These are all expressions of a nation coming together and caring about its people.”

“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light.”

There are many interesting facts about autumn that are exciting to learn.