Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
-Jon Lubbock.
In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six
different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.
-Mark Twain
As the seasons come and go at Burns Gardens . . .
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
-Albert Camus
Give me odorous at sunrise
a garden of beautiful flowers
where I can walk undisturbed.
~Walt Whitman
Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. ~Pietro Aretino