" I love the wild days of autumn, the west winds that rock the apple tree and bring down the leaves and fruit and nuts in showers, and...

" There is a smell in the air, the smell of autumn, a yeasty, damp, fruity smell, carrying a hint of smoke and a hint, too, of decay. It...

" For patience joins time to eternity" ​ {Wendell Berry} ​ ​ Mid-autumnal mood... leaves in full majestic glory, I walk enchanted....

" The days passed on, the weeks passed on, and the track of the golden autumn wound its bright way visibly through the green summer of...

“ It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day, the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always...

October ​ " Bending above the spicy woods which blaze, Arch skies so blue they flash, and hold the sun Immeasurably far; the waters run...

October comes, a mourning song in the air, a soft weeping in the willow tree... a mission of night-carving spirits from the breeze." ​...

" It was October again - a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valley were filled with delicate mists as if...

​ " Fall has fallen. The leaves are yellow against the dark blue-grey sky and the winds have picked up. The winds that are still warm and...

" This is the month of quiet days, crimson creepers, and blackberries; of mellow afternoons in the ripening garden... of wood fires in...

" Come said the wind to the leaves one day, come o'er the meadows and we will play. Put on your dresses scarlet & gold, for summer is...

" I notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature." ​ {Nietzche} ​ ​ Welcome autumn! a season for listening, to racing...

" I love this season of gradual withdrawal by nature, but a subtle inner withdrawal too; a slow, imperceptible retreat into ourselves. ​...

" We are in for a spell of perfect weather now, everyday luminous, every night brimmed with stars. Picnics at noon, supper by the...

" Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul." ​ {Peggy Horton} ​ ​ An awakened soul. A new energy thrums in...

" Oh, I know how it is looking out in the garden this golden weather, how the placid hours are slipping by in unchanged peace, how strong...

" That strangely still pause between summer & autumn, greenery and gold, and the heat and the rising wind that is once again readying...

" This joy gives her experience of a genii-life. Buoyant, by green steps, by glad hills, all verdue and light, she reaches a station...

She was blind and insensible to many things, and dimly she knew it; but to all that was light and air, perfume and color, every drop of...

" Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked...