Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn. – Leo Tolstoy, to Nikolay Strakhov

The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn. I started going for long lone country walks among the spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end, giving myself up to the earth-scents and the sky-winds and all the magic of the countryside which is ordained for the healing of the soul. – Monica Baldwin, I Leap Over the Wall: Contrasts and Impressions After Twenty-Eig

If you stand still outside you can hear it… Winter’s footsteps, the sound of falling leaves. – Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo video game) written by Takayuki Ikkaku, Ar

Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas. – Mehmet Murat ildan