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Springtime is the land awakening.  The March winds are the morning yawn.  ~Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You


Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"  ~Robin Williams


Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer.  ~Geoffrey B. Charlesworth


April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.  ~Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe


Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.  ~George Herbert


It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.  ~Charles Dickens, Great Expectations


Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.  ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke


It's spring fever.  That is what the name of it is.  And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!  ~Mark Twain


Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations.  It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.  ~Charles Dudley Warner


Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
~Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"


I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.  ~Ruth Stout


No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.  ~Proverb


Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.  ~Doug Larson


Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.  ~W. Earl Hall


If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.  ~Anne Bradstreet


The year's at the spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hillside's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in His heaven -
All's right with the world!
~Robert Browning


No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.  ~Hal Borland


Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.  ~Virgil A. Kraft


April is a promise that May is bound to keep.  ~Hal Borland


Where man sees but withered leaves,
God sees sweet flowers growing.
~Albert Laighton


That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.
~Winifred Mary Letts


In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day.  No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.  ~Aldo Leopold


In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.  ~Margaret Atwood


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


And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Sensitive Plant"


Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment.  ~Ellis Peters


Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men.  ~Chinese Proverb


The naked earth is warm with Spring,
And with green grass and bursting trees
Leans to the sun's kiss glorying,
And quivers in the sunny breeze.
~Julian Grenfell


In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.  ~Mark Twain


Our spring has come at last with the soft laughter of April suns and shadow of April showers. ~Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens


Under the... snow blossoms a daring spring. ~Terri Guillemets


O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? ~Percy Bysshe Shelley


You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.  ~Pablo Neruda


[W]ell-apparell'd April on the heel
Of limping winter treads...
~William Shakespeare


I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring.  Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature's rebirth?  ~Edward Giobbi


Spring has returned.  The Earth is like a child that knows poems.  ~Rainer Maria Rilke


The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day.
~Robert Frost


To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.  ~George Santayana


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


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.
~Author Unknown


The sun has come out... and the air is vivid with spring light. ~Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens


April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.  ~William Shakespeare


Out with the cold, in with the woo.  ~E. Marshall, "Spring Thought"


A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.
~Emily Dickinson


The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.  ~Bern Williams


Yesterday the twig was brown and bare;
To-day the glint of green is there;
Tomorrow will be leaflets spare;
I know no thing so wondrous fair,
No miracle so strangely rare.
I wonder what will next be there!
~L.H. Bailey


If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall.  ~Nadine Stair


Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!  ~Wallace Stevens


Hark! the hours are softly calling
Bidding Spring arise
To listen to the rain-drops falling
From the cloudy skies
To listen to Earth's weary voices
Louder every day
Bidding her no longer linger
On her charm'd way
But hasten to her task of beauty
Scarcely yet begun.
~Adelaide Anne Procter


The front door to springtime is a photographer's best friend. ~Terri Guillemets


The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase. ~E.B. White, "Hot Weather," One Man's Meat, 1944


Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire.  ~Virgil


First a howling blizzard woke us,
Then the rain came down to soak us,
And now before the eye can focus —
Crocus.  ~Lilja Rogers


If spring betrays summer, would autumn never arrive? ~Terri Guillemets


May is a pious fraud of the almanac. ~James R. Lowell


You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there.  It's the same with spring.  You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland.  ~Paul Fleischman


People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball.  I'll tell you what I do.  I stare out the window and wait for spring.  ~Rogers Hornsby


The seasons are what a symphony ought to be:  four perfect movements in harmony with each other.  ~Arthur Rubenstein

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