Air Quote by Leif Enger

It was October again ... a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

If the October days were a cordial like the sub-acids of fruit, these are a tonic like the wine of iron. Drink deep or…

— John Burroughs

October, here's to you. Here's to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory…

— Ken Weber

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.

— Alexander Smith

October arrives in a swirl of fragrant blue leaf smoke, the sweetness of slightly frosted MacIntosh apples, and little hard acorns falling. We are…

— Jean Hersey

“ May and October, the best-smelling months? I'll make a case for December: evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon. ”

— Lisa Kleypas

October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from the twigs'…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold The pur0ple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough drops its…

— William C. Bryant

I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The…

— Jean Webster

O days remember'd well! remember'd all! The bitter sweet, the honey and the gall; Those garden rambles in the silent night, Those trees so…

— George Crabbe

When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs of June…

— William C. Bryant

“June ripened into July, then burst and withered and dried and became August.”

— Lev Grossman