The beauty of autumn arrives at a much slower pace here. I usually spend the season feeling like I am in transit between summer and winter: the weather starts to get colder, and the leaves fall gradually, but we don’t get many spectacular bursts of color.

Yesterday, I felt as though I woke up to autumn, though. I heard the rustling of the leaves and saw the graceful dance that they made around me. And, today, I savored a heartwarming golden melody outside of our front window.

To celebrate the season, I would like to share these beautiful quotes:

“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

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus

“Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.”
― William Cullen Bryant

“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

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”
― John Donne