October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter. – Nova S. Blair
October, here’s to you. Here’s to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the wine-y spell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory nuts and the nostalgic whiff of that first wood smoke. – Ken Weber
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. – Albert Camus
And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October’s wood. And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October’s wood. – John Greenleaf Whittier, Snowbound
Autumn carries more gold in its hand than all the other seasons. – Jim Bishop
Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring. – Doug Larson
In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November. – Rose G. Kingsley, The Autumn Garden
The goldenrod is yellow
The corn is turning brown
The trees in apple orchards
With fruit are bending down.
– Childrens song
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
Under the harvest moon,
When the soft silver
Drips shimmering
Over the garden nights,
Death, the gray mocker,
Comes and whispers to you
As a beautiful friend
Who remembers.
– Carl Sandburg, Under the Harvest Moon
October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February. – Mark Twain
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