Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.
- William Cullen Bryant
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
- Albert Camus
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
- Stanley Horowitz
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace / As I have seen in one autumnal face.
- John Donne
Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
- Elizabeth Lawrence
I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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. Cummins
October is a symphony of permanence and change.
- Bonaro W. Overstreet
The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
- Edwin Way Teale
In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November.
- Rose G. Kingsley
Fiery colors begin their yearly conquest of the hills, propelled by the autumn winds. Fall is the artist.
- Takayuki Ikkaku
I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.
- Sue Grafton
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