Air Quote by Wallace Stegner

“There is a time in late September when the leaves are still green, and the days are still warm, but somehow you know that…

— Sharyn McCrumb

September tries its best to have us forget summer.

— Bernard Williams

Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

— David Mitchell

“Autumn to winter, winter to spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall— So rolls the changing year, and so we change; Motion so swift,…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Autumn is full of leave-taking.

— Mary Webb

Autumn is a hint from God to Old Age.

— Austin O'Malley

“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a…

— Natalie Babbitt

August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

— Sylvia Plath

Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.

— Henry David Thoreau

“it strikes me that the spirit of the Fourth, this year, was used up by September's end and fell like an early leaf.”

— William H. Gass

“And finally it seemed autumn had realized it was September. The last lingering days of summer had been pushed off stage and in the…

— Kate Morton

Autumn is a reminder that while the leaves die and fall, there will always be Spring, a chance to replenish and be reborn again.…

— Tao Porchon-Lynch