As we step into November, we embrace the changing season with open arms. The days grow shorter, the air becomes crisper, and the world around us transforms into a canvas of vibrant colors. November may be a month of transition, but it is also a time of reflection, gratitude, and renewal.
Embracing the Beauty of November
“The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of.” – Henry David Thoreau
“In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers.” – Cynthia Rylant
“Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moon rise.” – Gladys Taber
“There is October in every November and there is November in every December. All seasons melted in each other’s life.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Peering from some high window, at the gold of November sunset and feeling that if day has to become night, this is a beautiful way.” – E. E. Cummings
“So dull and dark are the November days. The lazy mist high up the evening curled, and now the morn quite hides in the smoke and haze; the place we occupy seems all the world.” – John Clare
“It was the best kind of November day. Cold and crisp, but not quite freezing, not icy.” – Rainbow Rowell
“Fear not November’s challenge bold. We’ve books and friends, and hearths that never can grow cold. These make amends.” – Alexander L. Fraser
“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.” – Henry Beston
“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
“In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning.” – Cynthia Rylant
“But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.” – L.M. Montgomery
“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.” – John Burroughs
“The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on… A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind. – Aldo Leopold
“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.” – Stanley Horowitz
Finding Inspiration and Gratitude in November
“November is the month that reminds us to be thankful. For the big things, for the small things and for making a spring that will come in due time so much sweeter.” – Rip Miller
“Don’t wait until the fourth Thursday in November, to sit with family and friends to give thanks. Make every day a day of Thanksgiving!” – Charmaine J. Forde
“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.” – B. C. Forbes
“The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.” – Henry Rollins
“Embrace the crisp change of November as an opportunity for renewal and for a fresh start as the winds are howling outside.” – Elise Green
“Be thankful for what you have. Your life is someone else’s fairy tale.” – Wale Ayeni
“I am most radiant and full of energy when the leaves are falling and there is a ghost of change in the air.” – Anna Madsen
“In every change, in every falling leaf, there is some pain, some beauty. And that’s the way new leaves grow.” – Amit Ray
“Even in the quiet and dark of November, there’s opportunity for progress while others rest or get unmotivated. So keep going.” – George Saunders
“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.” – Ralph H. Blum
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
“Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.” – Hal Borland
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” – Robert Brault
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” – Nathanial Hawthorne
Adding Humor to November
“You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.” – Jay Leno
“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.” – Emily Dickinson
“I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching football, making pumpkin pie and saying the magic phrase that sends your aunt storming out of the dining room to sit in her car.” – Stephen Colbert
“If one door opens and another door closes, your house is probably haunted.” – Unknown
“The November evening had a bite; it nibbled not-quite-gently at her cheeks and ears.” – Aleksandr Wootton
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” – Henry David Thoreau
“I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.” – Robert Brault
“Some say fall is the season when the leaves change. I say it’s the season when my sweat pants never change.” – Katie Nicole Felton
“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.” – Jay McInerney
“Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too much.” – Johnny Carson
Celebrating the Charm of November
“November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.” – Sir Walter Scott
“November comes and November goes, with the last red berries and the first white snows.” – Clyde Watson
“Welcome sweet November, the season of senses and my favorite month of all.” – Gregory F. Lenz
“Autumn is springtime in reverse.” – Terri Guillemets
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all other seasons.” – Jim Bishop
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” – Albert Camus
“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.” – Sarah Addison Allen
“Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.” – Cyril Connolly
“Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.” – Arianna Huffington
“How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring!” – Edwin Way Teale
For more inspiration and motivation this fall season, explore uplifting fall quotes, positive autumn quotes, and the best Thanksgiving quotes. You may also find joy in the inspirational October quotes and the anticipation of spring with May quotes.
