Quotes About Spring Thoreau

#1. The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?

Henry David Thoreau

#5. The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim. It is seemingly instantaneous at last.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!

Henry David Thoreau

#8. 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.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. This is the frost coming out of the ground; this is Spring. It precedes the green and flowery spring, as mythology precedes regular poetry. I

Henry David Thoreau

#10. Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. We loiter in winter while it is already spring.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. On the morning of many a first spring day ... the woods were bathed in so pure and bright a light as would have waked the dead. There needs no stronger proof of immortality.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. If a man does not keep pace with his
companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let
him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or
an oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer?

Henry David Thoreau

#15. Tis now the twenty-third of march,
And this warm sun takes out the starch
Of winter's pinafore -
Methinks The Very pasture gladly drinks
A health to spring, and while it sips
It faintly smacks a myriad lips.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has
been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed
there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.

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#19. The day is an epitome of the year. The night is the winter, the morning and evening are the spring and fall, and the noon is the summer.

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#20. No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.

Henry David Thoreau

#21. Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.

Henry David Thoreau

#22. The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.

Henry David Thoreau

#23. As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.

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#24. Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,
as if the short spring days were an eternity.

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#25. I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

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#26. Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.

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#27. The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame ...
and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.

Henry David Thoreau

#28. How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!

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#29. The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even in cold weather, wears away the surrounding ice.

Henry David Thoreau

#30. One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.

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#31. In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.

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#32. Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

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#33. Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.

Henry David Thoreau

#34. The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.

Henry David Thoreau