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55 Best Fall Quotes That Capture the Beautiful Spirit of the Season

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

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Fall is a hop, skip, and a jump (into a pile of crunchy leaves) away, which means it's almost time to pull out your favorite sweaters, flannels, and mugs to fill with endless pumpkin spice lattes. And that's not to mention the pretty fall foliage and all of the fun fall activities you have to look forward to, like apple picking and carving pumpkins! Given that, it's pretty clear that fall is near the top of the list as far as favorite seasons go. Even Ree Drummond agrees: "I would like to officially declare that fall is my favorite season," she says. With that sentiment in mind, you're probably itching for more fall quotes to read, like the ones below that capture the cinnamon-spiced essence of the season!

Lyrical lines will delight like George Eliot's "Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize." But there are also some more fun options to share with the kids, like Winnie the Pooh's ode to the season: "It's the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!" You'll find plenty of simple truisms here as well. A short John Burroughs quote comes to mind: "How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days." Just don't forget to snap a photo of your adventures this season—some of these could even work as fall Instagram captions!

Check out more ways to embrace the autumn season:

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William Wordsworth

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“Wild is the music of the autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.”

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Winston Graham

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“Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.”

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V V Brown

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“When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn.”

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Lauren DeStefano

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“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.”

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George Arnold

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“Thy first breezes bring the dry leaf’s rustle and the squirrel’s laughter.”

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Charmaine J. Forde

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“This tree must be falling for me, as soon as I sat under it, it dropped its leaves.”

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Hal Borland

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“Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.”

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“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!”

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Oscar Wilde

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“All at once, summer collapsed into fall.”

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William Butler Yeats

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“The trees are in their autumn beauty, the woodland paths are dry, under the October twilight the water mirrors a still sky.”

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Amit Ray

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“Fallen leaves on the ground are the golden song of immortal creativity.”

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John Donne

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

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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E. E. Cummings

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“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.”

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Terri Guillemets

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“Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.”

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Henry David Thoreau

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

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Andrea Gibson

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"The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground."

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Yoko Ono

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"Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence."

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Dan Millman

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"Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow."

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Henry Beston

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

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