Autumn Inspirational Quotes:

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.

- Lauren DeStefano

source: Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

topic: Fall, Autumn, Years, Fall Season, Finale

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

topic: Autumn, World, October, October And Fall, Autumn Days

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!

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

topic: Summer, Fall, Autumn, October And Fall, Summer To Fall

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.

- Jim Bishop

topic: Autumn, Gold, Pockets, Autumn Inspirational, Autumn Love

The season for enjoying the fullness of life - partaking of the harvest, sharing the harvest with others, and reinvesting and saving portions of the harvest for yet another season of growth.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Fall, Autumn, Fullness Of Life, October And Fall, Fall Autumn

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.

- Backseat Goodbye

topic: Fall, Autumn, Years, October And Fall, Plant A Tree

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

topic: Autumn, Years, Eight, Fall Autumn, Autumn Inspirational

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. cummings

topic: Inspiring, Rain, Fall, Leaves In The Wind, Wind In The Trees

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

- Samuel Butler

topic: Inspiring, Nature, Flower, October And Fall, Summer To Fall

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

topic: Fall, Autumn, Bird, Inspirational Nature, October And Fall

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

topic: Time, Spring, Fall, October And Fall, Equinox

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

- Emily Bronte

source: Emily Bronte, “Fall, Leaves, Fall”

topic: Fall, Autumn, Tree, Inspirational Tree, Fallen Trees

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

- Robert Browning

source: Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1826-1840”, p.116, Pearson Education

topic: Sympathy, Fall, Autumn, October And Fall, Sympathy For A Friend

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

- John Muir

source: Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

topic: Peace, Nature, Sunshine, Beautiful Nature, Journeys And Paths

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Art, Morning, Autumn, Fall Autumn, Fall Season

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

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Lonely, Halloween, Fall, Circulation, Malaria

I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.

- Helen Hunt Jackson

topic: Autumn, Land, Lit, Asters, Goldenrod

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

- Hal Borland

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

topic: Autumn, Men, Offers, Fall Season, Autumn Inspirational

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

- John Muir

topic: Autumn, Environmental, Care, Beautiful Nature, National Parks

All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

topic: Autumn, Lakes, Air, Fall Autumn, Autumn Days

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

- Vernon Duke

topic: New York, Autumn, Doe, Autumn Inspirational, Autumn Season

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

- Henry Beston

topic: Summer, Country, Fall, October And Fall, Leaves In The Wind

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

- John Burroughs

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Light, Inspirational Nature, Light And Color

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Fall, Autumn, Positivity, Summer To Fall, Fall Autumn

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

- Albert Camus

topic: Encouraging, Nature, Spring, Inspirational Flower, Spiritual Nature

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

- John Donne

source: 'Elegies' 'The Autumnal' (1599-1601)

topic: Beauty, Summer, Spring, Spring Poems, Spring Season

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

- William C. Bryant

topic: Autumn, Years, Lasts, Equinox, Autumn Days

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

source: "Autumn Across America". Book by Edwin Way Teale, 1956.

topic: Autumn, Men, Together, October And Fall, Summer To Fall

Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.

- Faith Baldwin

source: Faith Baldwin (1935). “American Family”

topic: Running, Autumn, Flames, Summer To Fall, Fall And Winter

Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?

- Hal Borland

topic: Distance, Autumn, Men, October And Fall, Ripeness

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

topic: Autumn, Sunshine, Air, October And Fall, Fall Autumn

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.

topic: Fall, Autumn, August, Summer To Fall, Foliage

A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air.

- Eric Sloane

source: Eric Sloane (2013). “Weather Almanac”, p.151, Courier Corporation

topic: Autumn, Lakes, Air, October And Fall, Crunch