"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 Rubinstein


"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