An April Day

Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.
Bishop Reginald Heber



Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
Ellis Peters





April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. -William Shakespeare






I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. -Ruth Stout







April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
William Shakespeare


 



An optimist is the human personification of spring. -Susan J. Bissonette






Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom. -Margaret Elizabeth Sangster






Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer. -Geoffrey B. Charlesworth






The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. -Harriet Ann Jacobs






I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring. Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature’s rebirth? -Edward Giobbi






What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.
Kobayashi Issa









It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! -Mark Twain






All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.
Helen Hayes






Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. -Virgil A. Kraft




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