Bearing witness Quote by Robin Wall Kimmerer

“Blossom In April the ponds open like black blossoms, the moon swims in every one; there’s fire everywhere: frogs shouting their desire, their satisfaction.…

— Mary Oliver

“And when the spring breezes blow up the valley; when the spring sun shines on last year's withered grass on the river banks; and…

— Halldor Laxness

“The day is early with birds beginning and the wren in a cloud piping like the child in the poem, drop thy pipe, thy…

— Janet Frame

“April comes to us, with her showers sweet. I wake to the cries of little birds before the light comes across the heath. They…

— Ned Hayes

“Suddenly, this word fills me with a sense of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end…

— Augusten Burroughs

“Winter will pass, the days will lengthen, the ice will melt in the pasture pond. The song sparrow will return and sing, the frogs…

— E. B. White

“Dear Diplodicus; dear Pterosaur; dear Trilobite; dear Mastodon, dear Dodo, dear Great Auk, dear Passenger Pigeon, dear Panda, dear Whooping Crane; and all you…

— Margaret Atwood

“winter always carries with it something of our sadness; then April came, that daybreak of summer, fresh like every dawn, gay like every childhood;…

— Victor Hugo

“...as the sun shines down to melt the ice of another winter, to summon spring wildflowers from the earth; as the sky darkens with…

— Teri Terry

“And, sure enough, saturation begins--the staedy work of seeps and springs. Then, suddenly, cottonwoods and willows spring from the sand, their leaves gyrating into…

— Amy Irvine

“After the sorts of winters we have had to endure recently, the spring does seem miraculous, because it has become gradually harder and harder…

— George Orwell

“It was one of those summers you’re nostalgic for even before it passes. Pale, bled skies. Thunderstorms in the night. Sour-smelling dawns. It brought…

— Kevin Barry