Autumn Equinox 2022: 10 Quotes Celebrating The First Day Of Fall

The 2022 autumnal equinox will take place on Sept. 22 and mark the first day of fall in the Northern Hemisphere.

During the autumnal equinox, days become shorter since the sun rises later and nightfall arrives earlier. The word "equinox" is derived from the Latin word "aequus," which means "equal," and "nox," meaning "night."

The equinox occurs when the sun's center passes through the "celestial equator," an imaginary sphere on the same plane as the Earth's equator. When the equinox arrives, day and night are almost equal in length.

In honor of the cooler temperatures and earlier nights, check out some of these quotes celebrating the arrival of the fall season below:

1. "It's the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!" — Winnie the Pooh

2. "There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves." — Joe L. Wheeler

3. "There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!" — Percy Bysshe Shelley

4. "Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons." — Jim Bishop

5. "Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance." — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

6. "The most beautiful carpet is the carpet made of autumn leaves!" — Mehmet Murat Ildan

7. "The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves. We have had our summer evenings; now for our October eves!" — Humbert Wolfe

8. "Such trees as there were allowed their leaves to fall—they fell unnoticed—seeming to promise, not without bitterness, to endure another year." — James Baldwin

9. "If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour." — Victoria Erickson

10. "The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider." — Jane Hirshfield