Autumn Quotes

We want it to stay, but autumn always leaves. Beautifully.

Terri Guillemets

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas, and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

There is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees – as if we are all to be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again. 

Ruth Ahmed

That’s my basic creative practice: walking around outdoors, pen and notebook in hand, hoping to stumble on a moment of insight. Luckily, autumn is full of inspiration: colorful leaves, assorted birds, days of blue skies and golden light.     

Grant Snider

There is no sound in the world to me like the crisp crackle of autumn leaves underfoot, no sight like the blazing red, yellow, and russet foliage and the dim and dusty purple of the distant hills, and no tonic like the tonic of the fresh air of out-of-doors.            

"The Pleasure of Autumn Rambling," c.1916

While we only look at Nature it is fair to say that Autumn is the end of the year; but it is still more true that Autumn is the beginning of the year.... Autumn is the time when in fact the leaves bud. Leaves wither because winter begins; but they also wither because spring is already beginning, because new buds are being made, as tiny as percussion caps out of which the spring will crack.... It is only an optical illusion that my flowers die in autumn; for in reality they are born.        

Karel Capek