Fall seems to have snuck up on us this year. The air is getting cooler by the minute and the leaves are slowly changing from lush greens to crisp reds and oranges. Although this change brings along with it longer nights and colder days, there is so much to get excited about with the changes of the season. Here are a few quotes that will get you in the spirit to put up the sandals and pull out the boots.

"I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it."-Lee Maynard

"Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable... the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street... by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese." - Hal Borland

"Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!" - Humbert Wolfe

"The tints of autumn.. a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of echanter, frost." -John Greenleaf Whittier

"The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let the dead things go." - anonymous

"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall" - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Autumn carries more gold in it's pocket than all the other seasons." -Jim Bishop

"Autumn... the year's last, loveliest smile."- William Cullen Bryant

"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." -L.M. Montgomery, "Anne of Green Gables"

"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, "Wither"