Best Early Spring Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.”

Humans States Animal Spring Green Plant Forgotten Former Recalls Being Human Minerals Plant Life Early Spring

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.”

Eternal Clothes Spring Brilliant Spring Poems Early Spring Fancy Clothes Dirty Clothes

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from the ground,--beautiful flowers, or leaves that look beautiful because so long unseen under the snow and decay,--so the pleasant air and warmth had called out three young people, who sat on a sunny hill-side enjoying the warm day and one another.”

Source: The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)

“even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.”

Humans Morning Spring Plant Lowest Vitality Early Morning Plant Life Early Spring

Book:The garden of a commuter's wife

Source: The garden of a commuter's wife

“Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminister and London.”

Stills Book House Sports Space Broken Scene Spring London Pleasant Broads Solitary Here And There Pastime Early Spring

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.”

Men Mean States Wealth Spring Wealthy Luxurious Early Spring

Author:Anton Chekhov

“There was a knight came riding by In early spring, when the roads were dry; And he heard that lady sing at the noon, Two red roses across the moon.”

Two Heard Flower Moon Spring Red Rose Dry Riding Knights Noon Red Rose Early Spring

Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)

“I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.”

Way Firsts Done Seems Space Wonderful Tree Painting Spring Bottom Floats Arrivals Early Spring

Author:David Hockney

“Here at CBS, spring also means March Madness. I love the name March Madness. I'm glad the PC police haven't made us change March Madness to early spring psychosis.”

Mean Made Names Havens Spring Madness Police Glad March Psychosis Early Spring

Author:Craig Ferguson

“For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.”

Needs Happiness Joy Challenges Security Flower Despair Spring Cliffs Springtime Inspirational Flower Joy Within Early Spring

Book:Locked rooms and open doors

Source: Locked rooms and open doors

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”

“Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.”

“But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the rain descending on black earth in early spring. --- And we, who always think of happiness rising, would feel the emotion that almost baffles us when a happy thing falls.”

Thinking Feels Might Earth Fall Black Emotion Tree Spring Rain Direct Empty Rising Descending Emblems Happy Things Early Spring

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!”

“In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.”

Wells Pain Morning Air Spring California Autumn Yellow Pale Coast April Mist Springtime Early Spring Morning Mist Pale Yellow

Book:Five American poets: Robert Hass, John Matthias, James McMichael, John Peck, Robert Pinsky

Source: Five American poets: Robert Hass, John Matthias, James McMichael, John Peck, Robert Pinsky

“Walking around an early spring garden- going nowhere.”

Walks Journey Walking Spring Garden Wander Hiking Trekking Strolling Sauntering Spring Garden Early Spring

Author:Kyoshi Takahama

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.”

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse

“When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in the early spring.”

Different Light Certain Time Spring Violet April Ripe Springtime Different Place Early Spring

Author:Farkas Bolyai

“'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!”

Enjoy Nature Air Flower Breathe Blossoming Wildflowers Spring Flowers Wreaths Flowers And Gardens Flower Blossom Inspirational Flower Summer Flower Early Spring Periwinkle

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

“Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?”

Men Made Reason Lament Early Spring Periwinkle

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

“Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves.”

Air Spring Delight Subtle Cheeks Perfume Breeze Unfolding Crisps Odor Early Spring

Book:The Song of the Cardinal

Source: The Song of the Cardinal

“In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.”

Mind Sweet Mood Pleasant Reverie Early Spring Pleasant Thoughts

Author:William Wordsworth

“Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.”

Faith Enjoy Air Sweet Flower Breathe Wreaths Early Spring Periwinkle

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

“And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.”

Thinking Men Heart Made My Heart Early Spring

Author:William Wordsworth