To anyone who has spent a winter in the north and known the depths to which the snow can reach, known the weeks when the mercury stays below zero, the first hint of spring is a major event. You must live in the north to understand it. Sigurd F. Olson
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. Anne Bradstreet
When one has faith that the spring thaw will arrive, the winter winds seem to lose some of their punch. Robert L. Veninga
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. Henry Van Dyke, Fisherman's Luck
The vernal equinox doesn't occur til the end of this week, but I saw and felt and smelled winter preparing to call it quits yesterday, around four o'clock in the afternoon. That doesn't mean no more snow or ice or sleet. All it means is change, which is slow and often interrupted. Hal Borland
Each year the season advances toward us out of the south, sweeps around us, goes flooding away into the north. Edwin Way Teale, North With Spring
When March goes on forever,
And April's twice as long,
Who gives a damn if spring has come,
As long as winter's gone. R. L. Ruzicka
Spring weather is life a child s face, changing three times a day. Chinese proverb
We need spring. We need it desperately and, usually, we need it before God is willing to give it to us. Peter Gzowski
Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. Elizabeth Bowen
Spring springs surprises faster than the wizard whizzes! Rod McKuen
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. Doug Larson
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring. Aldo Leopold
The scales are tipping from spring to summer. The season flucuates, it doesn't progress evenly, but grows the way teenage girls do, in fits and starts, at times still very young, at others startlingly mature. Diance Ackerman, Cultivating Delight
Spring is very cold and treacherous, almost crueller than winter....It is hard to feel sweet when icy winds are blithering through you. Emily Carr
Real Spring is a five-sense experience... Gary L. Saunders, So Much Weather
Spring comes to each tiny stretch in the snow quilt as a single moment....They break the close tie they may have held all winter with their neighbors. David Cavagnaro
Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. W. Earl Hall
But it [the weather] gets through more business in spring than in any other season. In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours. Mark Twain on New England weather
Sometimes in the spring when snows are melting fast...there is the music of running water everywhere... Sigurd F. Olson
Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. Reginald Heber
In the spring rain,
The pond and the river
Have become one. Buson
Like a sound spring spreads and spreads until it is swallowed up in space. Like the wind, it moves across the map invisible; we see it only in its effects. It appears like the track of the breeze on a field of wheat, like shadows of wind-blown clouds, like tossing branches that reveal the presence of the invisible, the passing of the unseen. Edwin Way Teale
Spring would not be spring without bird songs. Francis M. Chapman
Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. Virgil A. Kraft
Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. Lewis Grizzard, Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You
Spring sunshine and frosts are dickering over the garden growth. Emily Carr
It snowed in spring on earth so dry and warm
That flakes could find no landing place to form.
Hordes spent themselves to make it wet and cold,
And still they failed of any lasting hold. Robert Frost
Sitting quietly, doing nothing,
Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself. Zen saying
The longer I live and the more I read, the more certain I become that the real poems about spring aren't written on paper. They are written in the back pasture and the near meadow, and they are issued in a new revised edition every April. Hal Borland
....the world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. e. e. cummings
Spring is both father and mother to us. Galacia
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. Margaret Atwood
Spring’s an expansive time: yet I don’t trust
March with its peck of dust,
Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers,
Nor even May, whose flowers
One frost may wither thro’ the sunless hours. Christina Georgina Rossetti
The spring sky is high and full of movement. Emily Carr
Every year it seems to me I hear complaints about spring. It is either "late" or "unusually cold," "abnormally dry" or "fantastically wet," for no one is ever willing to admit that there is no such thing as a normal spring. Thalassa Crusso
Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone The Song of Solomon
Reaching for the heart of spring
wind from tree to tree. Aro
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball. Bill Veeck
I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. Ruth Stout
The great winds of spring are both a paean of victory and something of a farewell. Winter is gone and good riddance; it is indeed time for something else,... Henry Beston, Northern Farm
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