Seasons
» “Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.”
– Al Bernstein
» ”Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.”
– Elizabeth Bowen
» ”When chill November’s surly blast make fields and forest bare.”
– Robert Burns
» ”Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
– Henry James
» ”One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, strawberry or cherry are now things of the past, along with their precious moment of arrival. Even the tangerine — now a satsuma or clementine — appears de-pipped months before Christmas.”
– Derek Jarman
» ”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
» ”April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers.”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
» ”Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.”
– Ogden Nash
» ”The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?”
– J. B. Priestley
» ”The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.”
– Arthur Rubenstein
» ”To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”
– George Santayana
» ”January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps — but, O ye hours! Follow with May’s fairest flowers.”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
» ”For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.”
– Solomon
» ”Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.”
– Henry David Thoreau
» ”Spring is not the best of seasons. Cold and flu are two good reasons; wind and rain and other sorrow, warm today and cold tomorrow. Whoever said Spring was romantic? The word that best applies is frantic!”
– Source Unknown
