~ Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. ~
~ Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~
~ Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer. ~
~ Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. ~
~ Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. ~
~ When spring comes the grass grows by itself. ~
~ Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing. ~
~ Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance. ~