From the first red leaf and the first windy day, fall is a perfect time for quiet contemplation. Here are 30 fall quotes to remind you of its beauty.

There are so many reasons to fall in love with the fall season. And if you don’t necessarily agree, we’re sure the following fall quotes will convince you that autumn is simply gorgeous.

From the first red leaf and the first windy day, fall is a perfect time for quiet contemplation. While slowly putting itself to rest, nature offers us an enchanting color spectacle and the landscapes are a sight for sore eyes even when it’s cloudy.

Every season has something for everyone, but Fall has Halloween, Thanksgiving and… pumpkin spice lattes! Who doesn’t love those scary and creative costumes, the parties or the amazing house decorations during Halloween?  As for Thanksgiving dinners, they’re always memorable.

At the beginning of fall, some of us still get sentimental about the long-gone school days. We know — some of you probably dread the first day of school, but trust us, you’ll think otherwise in a few years. Besides, shopping for school supplies is always fun!

Here are 30 Fall quotes to appreciate the season’s beauty:

Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.

STANLEY HOROWITZ

I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

L.M. MONTGOMERY (more Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes)

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

ALBERT CAMUS (more Albert Camus quotes)

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

GEORGE ELIOT (more George Eliot quotes)

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

JOHN BURROUGHS

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

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

EMILY BRONTË

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

Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE (more Friedrich Nietzsche quotes)

Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.

YOKO ONO

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers, we more than gain in fruits.

SAMUEL BUTLER

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves…

VIRGINIA WOOLF (more Virginia Woolf quotes)

It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!

WINNIE THE POOH (more Winnie the Pooh quotes)

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.

E. E. CUMMINGS

Another fall, another turned page…

WALLACE STEGNER

Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.

RÉMY DE GOURMON

Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable…the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street…by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.

HAL BORLAND

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

JOHN BURROUGHS

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

JIM BISHOP

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

JOHN DONNE

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.

ELIZABETH LAWRENCE

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. So I have spent almost all the daylight hours in the open air.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (more Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes)

And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.

OSCAR WILDE

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

I loved autumn, the season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.

LEE MAYNARD

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

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

The tints of autumn… a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.

JOE L. WHEELER

Autumn leaves are falling, filling up the streets; golden colors on the lawn, nature’s trick or treat!

RUSTY FISCHER