Air Quote by John Burroughs

Long after their associates have gone southward, they linger like the last leaves on the tree. It is indeed "good-bye to summer" when the…

— Neltje Blanchan

I always feel at home where the sugar maple grows… glorious in autumn, a fountain of coolness in summer, sugar in its veins, gold…

— John Burroughs

Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost;…

— John Burroughs

In spring when maple buds are red, We turn the clock an hour ahead; Which means, each April that arrives, We lose an hour…

— Phyllis McGinley

It is a sultry day; the sun has drunk The dew that lay upon the morning grass; There is no rustling in the lofty…

— William C. Bryant

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

Sugaring season is the season when you tap the trees for sugar that turns into maple syrup. I've married someone from Vermont, so it's…

— Beth Orton

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another…

— John Muir

The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stoppingshort at a…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Only five minutes later he noticed a dozen crocuses growing round the foot of an old tree- gold and purple and white. Then came…

— C.S. Lewis

The first time I came across the birds and the bees in actual flight, I couldn't identify the formation.

— Bill Cosby

“The ripe, the golden month has come again, and in Virginia the chinkapins are falling. Frost sharps the middle music of the seasons, and…

— Thomas Wolfe