Autumn is officially here. Hooray! Although we live in Southern California with milder seasons year-round, there is a freshness to the air. Breezes are cooler, and leaves on the liquid amber trees are beginning to change from green to yellow, orange, and red. It’s just the best time of year! Time to take out my cozy seaters. Time to peruse my cookbooks for soup recipes. Time to add to my stockpile of books to read. Yay fall!
Even more exciting is that we are headed to the east coast to spend time with family. I am looking forward to sharing stories of our travels there, but in the meantime, I’d like to share some delightful quotes on the season that Albert Camus describes this way. “Autumn a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” How lovely. For more, read on!
“The time when everything bursts with its last beauty as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.” – Lauren DeStefano.
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – Unknown
“Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile.” – William Cullen Bryant
“The husky, rusty rustle of the tussle of the corn, And the raspin’ of the tangled leaves, as golden as the morn.” – James Whitcomb Riley
“A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.” – Anonymous
“Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.” – Unknown
“Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.” – Faith Baldwin
“The heart of autumn must have broken here and poured its treasure upon the leaves.” – Unknown
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” – Henry David Thoreau
“By all these lovely tokens September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” – Helen Hunt Jackson
“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” – Humbert Wolfe
“Autumn leaves are like little gifts falling from the sky, making everything look magical.” – Unknown
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the top of a leaf.” -Rabindranath Tagore
“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
“I watch the birds fly south across the autumn sky / And one by one they disappear.” – The Moody Blues, “Forever Autumn”
“But I miss you most of all, my darling / When autumn leaves start to fall.” – Frank Sinatra, “Autumn Leaves”
“Nature’s first green is gold.” – Robert Frost
“Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.”- Elizabeth Bowen
“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn. Stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.” -Thomas Hood
“But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices and give us the pumpkin-pie!” – Margaret Junkin Preston
“Now Autumn’s fire burns slowly along the woods, and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.” – William Allingham
“Blaze the mountains in the windless Autumn, Frost-clear, blue-nooned, apple-ripening days.” – Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
“It is a real chill out. The fall crisp comes … ” – Gwendolyn Brooks
“Autumn, it carries more gold in its hand than all the other seasons.” – Jim Bishop
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” – L.M. Montgomery
“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” – Sarah Addison Allen
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me / Fluttering from the autumn tree.” -Emily Brontë
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.” – Samuel Butler
“The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.” – Jane Hirshfield
“Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings.” – Terri Guillemets
“Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place / And I can picture it after all these days.” – Taylor Swift, “All Too Well”
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” -John Donne
Wishing you the best this season has to offer! Happy Fall!
A Journal Journey 