Spring

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.
- Proverb from Guinea

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, 1899

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils.
- William Wordsworth

The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts
of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full
of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with
earthy smells, and the grass under foot
had a reflection of the blue sky in it.
- Willa Cather

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

One week later ...
Six Directions of Green
Billions of leaf-buds
- Mike Garofalo, Cuttings

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