Appearance Quote by William Carlos Williams

The spring of the New Age is here, bursting forth in perfect harmony, beauty and abundance; and nothing can stop it from coming about.

— Eileen Caddy

The beauty of nature insists on taking its time. Everything is prepared. Nothing is rushed. The rhythm of emergence is a gradual, slow beat;…

— John O'Donohue

Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.

— William Butler Yeats

“It’s hard to walk briskly at this time of year; the accelerating pace of unfolding spring slows my own. I repeatedly stop- to watch…

— Carl Safina

... the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their increase, now knows not…

— William Shakespeare

As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and…

— Charles Baudelaire

And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

with the spring a sort of inspiration is wakened in the most prosaic of us. The same spirit of change that thrills the saplings…

— Marah Ellis Ryan

Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.

— Poul Anderson

“Spring comes to the Australian Alps like an invisible spirit. There is not the tremendous surge of upthrust life that there is in the…

— Elyne Mitchell

“They cleared swiftly, dramatically, like a stage set or a movie; we went from black to stunning blue, the day emerging at once wet…

— Lauren Slater

All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it…

— Robert Macfarlane