Winter is an etching; spring a watercolor; summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. ~Stanley Horowitz


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


Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~Albert Camus


Youth is like spring; an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season; and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. ~Samuel Butler


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


Bittersweet October. The mellow; messy; leaf-kicking; perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter. ~Carol Bishop Hipps


October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter. ~Nova Bair


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. ~George Eliot


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


Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn. ~Elizabeth Lawrence