Henry David Thoreau Quotations: Spring
The ground under the snow has long since felt the influence of the spring sun, whose rays fall at a more favorable angle.—Journal, 28 March 1856
The spring advances in spite of snow and ice, and cold even.—Journal, 28 March 1856
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
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
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.—WaldenÂ
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
To us snow and cold seem a mere delaying of the spring. How far we are from understanding the value of these things in the economy of Nature!—Journal, 8 March 1859
We are most apt to remember and cherish the flowers which appear earliest in the spring. I look with equal affection on those which are the latest to bloom in the fall.—Journal, 31 August 1850
