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The Henry D. Thoreau Quotation Page: Spring
  • How imperceptibly the first springing takes place! [Journal, 3 March 1859]
  • It is a natural resurrection, an experience of immortality. [Journal, 24 February 1852]
  • No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring. [Journal, 17 March 1857]
  • As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age. [Walden]
  • Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers. [Journal, 1 March 1838]
  • In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven. [Walden]
  • One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have the leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in. [Walden]
  • The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever! [Walden]
  • The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again. [Journal, 7 March 1855]
  • Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants? [Journal, June 1850]
  • They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself. [Walden]
  • So mild the air a pleasure 'twas to breathe,
    For what seems heaven above was earth beneath. ["May Morning"]

A Note on the Text: Unless otherwise noted, quotations are from The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906)

 

Lady's-slippers (Photographer: Herbert Gleason, from The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, 1906)

He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds. — Journal, 17 May 1853

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