In autumn, the sun disappears much earlier and nighttime seems to descend in a great hurry each day.

"Go, sit upon the lofty hill, and turn your eyes around, where waving woods and waters wild do hymn an autumn sound." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Celebrating Autumn with Words

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns ~ George Eliot.

Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light, the full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow, drops in a silent autumn night. All its allotted length of days the flower ripens in its place, ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, fast-rooted in the fruitful soil. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~ John Muir

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees. ~ C.S. Lewis