Henry David Thoreau Quotations: SEASONS
The spring comes earlier to that dooryard than to any, and summer lingers longest there.—Journal, 26 November 1857
The very sound of men's work reminds, advertises, me of the coming of spring.—Journal, 24 February 1852
The voices of school children sound like spring.—Journal, 9 February 1854
The year has many seasons more than are recognized in the Almanac.—Journal, 31 May 1850
Then the gentle, spring-like rain begins, and we turn about. The sounds of it pattering on the dry oak leaves . . .—Journal, 14 February 1859
There is something sublime in the fact that some of the oldest written sentences should thus celebrate the coming in of spring.—Journal, 9 July 1852
There was a remarkable sunset, I think the 25th of October. The sunset sky reached quite from west to east, and it was the most varied in its forms and colors of any that I remember to have seen.—Journal, 12 November 1859
These earthly sounds should only die away for a season, as the strains of the harp rise and swell. Death is that expressive pause in the music of the blast.—Journal, 29 December 1841
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
To one we love we are related as to nature in the spring. Our dreams are mutually intelligible. We take the census, and find that there is one.—Journal, 30 April 1851
