Autumn
Autumn or Fall ( /ˈɔːtəm/, /ˈɑːtəm/ or /fɔːl/, /fɑːl/, respectively) is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere) when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier.
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Famous quotes containing the word autumn:
“I have no more patience for this Europe where Autumn wears the face of Spring and Spring reeks of misery.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“That night was the turning-point in the season. We had gone to bed in summer, and we awoke in autumn; for summer passes into autumn in some imaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“For his bounty,
There was no winter in’t; an autumn it was
That grew the more by reaping.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)