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

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower-Albert
Camus

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.
 For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering
abroad-Edwin Way Teale

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which
occur more frequently in memory than in life-P.D. James

Bittersweet October.  The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking,
perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and
winter-Carol Bishop Hipps