Fall Season Quotes

• Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

  Yoko Ono

  Summer, Perseverance, Gratitude

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• I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.

  Lee Maynard

  Fall, Autumn, Years

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• The morns are meeker than they were,
  The nuts are getting brown;
  The berry's cheek is plumper,
  The rose is out of town.
  The maple wears a gayer scarf,
  The field a scarlet gown.
  Lest I should be old-fashioned,
  I'll put a trinket on.

  Emily Dickinson

  Fall, Autumn, Nuts

  Emily Dickinson (2004). “Poems”, p.57, 1st World Publishing

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• Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.

  Hal Borland

  Fall, Autumn, Men

  Hal Borland (1969). “Homeland: A Report from the Country”

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• Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.

  Dorothy Parker

  Summer, Spring, Hate

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• 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, Jr.

  Fall, Autumn, August

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• Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light,
  The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow,
  Drops in a silent autumn night.
  All its allotted length of days
  The flower ripens in its place,
  Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil,
  Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Flower, Fall

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Tennyson: Selected Poetry”, p.37, Routledge

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• Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Light, Years, Wind

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.3236, Simon and Schuster

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• The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fall, Autumn, Snow

  Letter to J. Middleton Murry, 3 Oct. 1924, in Collected Letters (1962) vol. 2, p. 812

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• Lest I should be old-fashioned,
  I'll put a trinket on.

  Emily Dickinson

  Fall, Autumn, Berries

  Emily Dickinson (2004). “Poems”, p.57, 1st World Publishing

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• The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Flower, Fall, Autumn

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Tales and Sketches, Complete Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches”, p.336, tredition

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

  Henry Beston

  Summer, Country, Fall

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• When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating ground.

  Emily Dickinson

  Fall, Autumn, Space

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.154, Harvard University Press

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• There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

  Francis Bacon

  Spring, Fall, Autumn

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.105, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on.... A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind.

  Aldo Leopold

  Fall, Autumn, Wind

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  Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!

  Humbert Wolfe

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  Humbert Wolfe (1936). “P.L.M.: Peoples, Landfalls, Mountains”, London : Cassell

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• All in November's soaking mist We stand and prune the naked tree, While all our love and interest Seem quenched in the blue-nosed misery.

  Ruth Pitter

  Love, Fall, Autumn

  Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”

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• Give me the end of the year an' its fun
  When most of the plannin' an' toilin' is done;
  Bring all the wanderers home to the nest,
  Let me sit down with the ones I love best,
  Hear the old voices still ringin' with song,
  See the old faces unblemished by wrong,
  See the old table with all of its chairs
  An' I'll put soul in my Thanksgivin' prayers.

  Edgar Guest

  Love, Song, Prayer

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Thanksgiving”

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• Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness-that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

  Jane Austen

  Fall, Exercise, Autumn

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.221, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.

  William Cowper

  Time, Spring, Fall

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• Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, and all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of logs below falling on the cobblestones and the lawn.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  Charles Baudelaire, “Chant D'Automne (Song Of Autumn)”

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• In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.

  Alexander Smith

  Autumn, Years, Circles

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Life, Spring, Flower

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• Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.

  Carl Sandburg

  Fall, Autumn, Wind

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The birds are flown.

  John Updike

  Fall, Autumn, Grieving

  John Updike, Nancy Ekholm Burkert (1989). “A Child's Calendar”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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