”Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”

“Never jump in a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.”

Yellow autumn trees in Tuileries Garden near Louvre in Paris, France. Beautiful autumn landscape

“Go, sit upon the lofty hill, And turn your eyes around, Where waving woods and waters wild Do hymn an autumn sound. The summer sun is faint on them— The summer flowers depart— Sit still— as all transform’d to stone, Except your musing heart.”

“The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.”

“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize.”

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

“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.”

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”

“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”

PICTURE BY JIM HOLDEN 07590 683036 For Kew at Wakehurst

“For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.”