We have finally reached autumn, my favourite season. I love the light, the colours, the crunchy leaves, the crispness of the air… I love all of it. So I’m very happy that it’s finally upon us. And so, to celebrate, here are some quotes about this gorgeous time of year…

“There are two times of year: autumn and waiting for autumn.” – Unknown

“Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.” – Terri Guillemets

“The sun tires of summer and sighs itself into autumn.” – Terri Guillemets

“Essentially, autumn is the quiet completion of spring and summer. Spring was all eagerness and beginnings, summer was growth and flowering. Autumn is the achievement summarized, the harvested grain, the ripened apple, the grape in the wine press. Autumn is the bright leaf in the woodland, the opened husk on the bittersweet berry, the froth of asters at the roadside.” – Hal Borland

“A glorious crown the year puts on…” – Phebe A. Holder

“… The world reveals itself in its true dimensions in the autumn…” – Hal Borland

“Somewhere along the way, I realized that the new year doesn’t begin for me in January. The new and fresh has always come for me in the fall. Ironically, as leaves are falling like rain, crunching beneath my feet with finality, I am vibrating with the excitement of birth and new beginnings… My year begins in autumn.” – Betsy Cañas Garmon

“I am standing in a new-minted world, summer folded away like a rose pressed in a book.” – Gladys Taber

“I step outside and the chilly air tightens the skin on my bare arms. Summer has ended all too quickly, and some of the leaves on the trees have already started to burn with the colors of fall. Fall colors… so bright and intense and beautiful. It’s like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary.” – Siobhan Vivian

“Autumn repays the earth the leaves which summer lent it.” – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“‘I’m dreading fall. It is a terrifying season,’ he says… ‘Everything shrivelling up and dying.’ I don’t know how to answer. 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. I’ve never thought to be frightened of it.” – Lauren DeStefano

“We do not migrate as the birds do, but I notice there is a change in the rhythm of our life when the season ebbs… There is a quickening in the blood, a restlessness. Suddenly we are full of projects, which may be our own manner of migrating.” – Gladys Taber

“Autumn is the season of change.” – Taoist Proverb

“… Autumn winds shaking color from the trees…” – Terri Guillemets

“Light understands the colors of Autumn, and she loves him for it.” – Terri Guillemets

“I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Autumn is spring turned antique.” – Terri Guillemets

“Autumn writes her own poetry,
we are merely observers.” – Terri Guillemets

“Autumn carries more gold in its pockets than all the other seasons.” – Jim Bishop

“Autumn breathes in golden sunshine and breathes out a frosty chill.” – Terri Guillemets

“Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birdsong and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings.” – Terri Guillemets

“We want it to stay, but autumn always leaves. Beautifully.” – Terri Guillemets

“Autumn leaves blaze their swan song of colors and wait for winter to wipe the slate clean.” – Terri Guillemets

As I said, I’ve always loved autumn. The colours are so beautiful and there’s something about the light that seems different, feels different. And I love the bite in the air in the mornings; I can’t help thinking about how that’s what the expression ‘fresh start’ actually feels like. I feel more alive when the mornings feel like that. I’m also so used to a new academic year beginning in the autumn that I associate the time of year with new beginnings, even though I’m now no longer in education, and I can’t help feeling energised by that. That feeling might change now that I’m done with university (for the foreseeable future at least) but for now, I’ll try and enjoy that feeling.

Do you guys have any particular quotes about autumn or that you associate with autumn? Or maybe poems or songs? I have my playlist for each year but, at some point, I might make a playlist of songs that I associate with each season. That might be fun.