Few things in nature are as beautiful as the changing colour of leaves during Autumn. It’s a time of year that takes your breath away, and something we’ve spent the last few weeks enjoying in Mount Wilson, Australia, which inspired us to put this post together.

Here is a collection of our favourite quotes about leaves that encapsulate this natural wonder.

“Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf. It’s ordinary to love the beautiful, but it’s beautiful to love the ordinary.”

– MJ Korvan

“Fallen leaves on the ground are the golden song of immortal creativity.”

– Amit Ray

“They tell you to turn into a new leaf and then complain about your faded colour.”

– Nitya Prakash

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”

– Rabindranath Tagore

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”

– Albert Camus

“Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves change.”

– Elizabeth Lawrence

“Rather than turning over a new leaf, prune your tree so that new leaves continue to blossom.”

– Feroz Bham

“In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that’s the way new leaves grow.”

– Amit Ray

“Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”

– Delia Owens

“Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow, signaling the later days of autumn.”

“There is a subtle magic in the falling of old leaves.”

– Avijeet Das

“There is an eternal love between the water drop and the leaf. When you look at them, you can see that they both shine out of happiness.”

“Even a leaf in the wind settles sometimes.”

“I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived. And when it was time to leave, gracefully it knew life was a gift.”

– Dodinsky

“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”

– Joe L Wheeler

“The journey may be fraught with challenges, yet it continues, for even the smallest leaf must embrace destiny…Persistence is the key…”

– Virginia Alison

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”

– Emily Bronte

“Each day is a dry leaf, which never comes back to life again.”

“Every falling leaf reminds me that I too will soon be separated from these trees. Trying to capture freedom is like trying to catch a falling leaf. Occasionally you may grab one out of the air and hold it in your hands, but now what?”

– Daniel J. Rice

“Learn character from trees, values from roots and change from leaves”

– Tasneern Harneed

“The leaf does not immediately absorb the drop of water falling on it; she slowly drinks with great pleasure!”

– Mehmet Murat ildan

“The autumn leaf falls faster than the trees grow faster.”

“How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”

– John Burroughs

“I am just a leaf. Just a leaf falling from the tree so that a new bud may grow.”

– Gemma Malley

“Art is the flower… Life the green leaf.”

“Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.”

– Shira Tamir

“Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold? The tree says to the leaf: That’s the cycle of life. You may think you’re going to die, but you live on in me. It’s thanks to you that I’m alive, because I can breathe. It’s also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveller. Your sap is in my sap; we are one thing.”

– Paulo Coelho

“There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.”

“I’ve seen a jillion miracles. They’re all around. Every green leaf is a miracle.”

– Jimmy Dean

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”

– Chad Sugg

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place.

– Rumi

“Birth, life, and death – each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.”

– Toni Morrison

“Every tree in the forest has a story to tell. Some of them were burnt but they endured the fire and got revived; some of them were cut, their barks injured, some people pick up their leaves to make medicines for their sicknesses, birds used their leaves to make their nests, etc. Upon all these, the tree is still tree!”

– Israelmore Ayivor

This post may contain affiliate links, meaning at no additional cost to you, that we will earn a small commission if you click through and decide to make a purchase. This helps towards the costs of running our website. Thanks for your support!

Like it? Pin it!

Follow us on social media

What is your favourite quote about leaves? Think we’ve missed a gem off? Let us know in the comments below!

Inspirational Quotes