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

                                —P.D. James

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

                     —Stanley Horowitz

Besides the autumn poets sing, / A few prosaic days / A little this side of the snow / And that side of the haze.

                      —Emily Dickinson

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.            —Hal Borland

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

—John Burroughs

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

The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.

                            —Henry Beston

That time of year thou may’st in me behold, / When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang / Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, / Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.

             —William Shakespeare

No Spring nor Summer Beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

                               —John Donne

Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.

                              —Doug Larson