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The Elders Speak

About Spring

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Will the spring ever come?
Anna Jameson

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


Rural Spring by Keith C. Heidorn,
Oil on Canvas
©2005, All Rights Reserved.

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 Runoff by Keith C. Heidorn,
Oil on Canvasboard
©2006, All Rights Reserved.

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


Redwing Blackbird by Keith C. Heidorn,
Watercolour Painting on Paper
©2006, All Rights Reserved.

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


Spring Signs by Keith C. Heidorn,
Acrylic Painting on Canvas
©2007, All Rights Reserved.

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


Prairie Wind by Keith C. Heidorn,
Watercolour Painting on Paper
©2006, All Rights Reserved.

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