33 Changing Leaves Quotes That Celebrate the Beauty of Fall

1. “And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves…” — Virginia Woolf

2. “The leaves are changing; I feel poetry in the air.” — Laura Jaworski

3. “It seems like all the leaves changed in one fall swoop.”

4. “Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.” — Elizabeth Lawrence

5. “It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” — Sarah Addison Allen

6. “A refreshing breeze, enriched by acerb fragrances of maple, oak, and poplar tree leaves that already began changing their colors for autumn, blew from the lake.” — Sahara Sanders

7. “I see the turning of a leaf dancing in an autumn sun, and brilliant shades of crimson glowing when the day is done.” — Hazelmarie Mattie Elliott

8. “Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron, and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under the harvest skies.” — Sharon Kay Penman

9. “The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

10. “Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow.” — Dan Millman

11. “The air had a cool crispness to it and the leaves on the trees had begun turning yellow and red.” — Carla Reighard

12. “The tree-lined streets formed golden archways of autumnal colour, and whatever foliage had already fallen formed a russet carpet that came alive and danced around our wheels as we drove over it.” — Alex Kefford

13. “I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves.” — Ann Drake

14. “I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colors richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content. From a knowledge of those limitations and its richness of experience emerges a symphony of colors, richer than all, its green speaking of life and strength, its orange speaking of golden content and its purple of resignation and death.” — Lin Yutang

15. “Fall colors are funny. They’re so bright and intense and beautiful. It’s like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary.” — Siobhan Vivian

16. “The heart of autumn must have broken here, and poured its treasure upon the leaves.” — Charlotte Bates

17. “Rebellious leaves going out in a blaze of glory, setting trees aflame in riotous color. Reluctant surrender to rumors of coming winter.” — John Mark Green

18. “Then the trees, after their long silence, began to talk again, in yellow and red.”  — Mirrlees

19. “Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.” — Faith Baldwin

20. “Leaves descending to the ground, Orange, magenta, green & brown. The cool crisp breezes in the air, Autumn season must be here” — Charmaine J Forde

21. “The journey may be fraught with challenges, yet it continues, for even the smallest leaf must embrace destiny…Persistence is the key…” — Virginia Alison

22. “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.”  — Lauren DeStefano

23. “Many say autumn is by far the most spectacular season in Lanark County. During these brief few weeks Mother Nature paints our landscape with her most vivid palette, colouring our trees with broad strokes of the richest crimsons, fiery oranges, and the sunniest yellows, leaving no doubt in anyone’s mind that these sugar maples are the crown jewels of our forests.” — Arlene Stafford-Wilson

24. “If only humans could die like the autumn leaves, with a splash of beauty and the promise of another season.” — Shana Chartier

25. “How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” — John Burroughs

26. “Autumn leaves are falling, filling up the streets; golden colors on the lawn, nature’s trick or treat!” — Rusty Fischer

27. “Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf. It’s ordinary to love the beautiful, but it’s beautiful to love the ordinary.” — M.J. Korvan

28. “She loved the fall, all the sun-faded colors of summer repainted by vivid reds and golds.” — Naomi Ragen

29. “Leaves grow old gracefully, bring such joy in their last lingering days. How vibrant and bright is their final flurry of life.” — Karen Gibbs

30. “October had tremendous possibility. The summer’s oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures. They made me believe in miracles.” — Sarah Guillory

31. “Birth, life, and death – each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.” — Toni Morrison

32. “October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.” — Nova S. Blair

33. “Learn character from trees, values from roots and change from leaves.” — Tasneern Harneed