Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost
Marcia Straub//Getty Images“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
2Katie Nicole Felton
Olena Ruban//Getty Images“Some say fall is the season when the leaves change. I say it’s the season when my sweat pants never change.”
3Henry David Thoreau
Marcia Straub//Getty Images“The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of.”
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4You’ve Got Mail
Getty Images“Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”
5Unknown
Getty Images“The weather just went from 90 to 55 like it saw a state trooper.”
6Ernest Dowson, "Autumnal"
Getty Images“Pale amber sunlight falls across
The reddening October trees,
That hardly sway before a breeze
As soft as summer: summer’s loss
Seems little, dear! on days like these.”
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7Ka’ala, @alohakaala
Getty Images8Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing
Getty Images“Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”
9Linus, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Getty Images“Never jump in a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.”
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10Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Autumn
Getty Images“Go, sit upon the lofty hill, And turn your eyes around, Where waving woods and waters wild Do hymn an autumn sound. The summer sun is faint on them— The summer flowers depart— Sit still— as all transform’d to stone, Except your musing heart.”
11Jane Hirshfield, The Heat of Autumn
Getty Images“The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.”
12George Eliot
Country Living"Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize."
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13Virginia Woolf
Country Living"And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves..."
14Winnie the Pooh Pooh's Grand Adventure
Country Living"It's the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!"
15e.e. cummings
Country Living"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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16Wallace Stegner
Country Living"Another fall, another turned page..."
17Unknown
Design: Rebekah Lowin"Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go."
18Chad Sugg
Design: Rebekah Lowin"Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year."
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19Rémy de Gourmon
Design: Rebekah Lowin"Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end."
20J.K. Rowling
Design: Rebekah Lowin"Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple."
Jessica Leigh Mattern is a web editor and writer who covers home, holiday, DIY, crafts, travel, and more lifestyle topics. Prior to working for Country Living, she wrote for several lifestyle and women’s magazines including Woman’s Day, Cosmopolitan, and Redbook
Terri Robertson is the Senior Editor, Digital, at Country Living, where she shares her lifelong love of homes, gardens, down-home cooking, and antiques.
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