Brooks Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!

— Henry David Thoreau

I wonder if the sap is stirring yet, If wintry birds are dreaming of a mate, If frozen snowdrops feel as yet the sun…

— Christina Rossetti

Spring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the real world…

— Barbara Holland

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves.…

— Olive Schreiner

“Spring, spring! Bytuene Mershe ant Averil, when spray biginneth to spring! When shaws be sheene and swards full fayre, and leaves both large and…

— George Orwell

Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled song? No…

— Neltje Blanchan

If not for you, winter wouldn't hold no spring, couldn't hear a robin sing. I just wouldn't have a clue, if not for you.

— Bob Dylan

Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and…

— Samuel Johnson

“Life and summer are fleeting,’ sang the bird. ‘Snow and dark, and the winter comes. Nothing remains the same.”

— Elyne Mitchell

Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the…

— Thomas Nash

Spring still makes spring in the mind When sixty years are told: Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, And we are never old Over…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson