The Wonder of Spring emlu May/06 Use the mouse or arrow key to advance the slides You can also go forward or back with the arrow keys if you wish Music: Secret Feelings by Eernest Cortazar

The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion, as if the short spring days were an eternity. … Henry David Thoreau

If the simple things in nature have a message you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. … Eleanora Duse

And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins. … Algernon Charles Swinburne

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is. … Albert Einstein

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, And the grass grows by itself … Zen proverb

I stuck my head out the window this morning And spring kissed me bang in the face … Langston Hughes

Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trail'd its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. … William Wordsworth

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring … Bern Williams

All things seem possible in May … Edwin Way Teale

Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day … W. Earl Hall

If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness … Therese of Lisieux

simply spring …me

Earth is still in her swaddling-clothes, and stretches forth baby fingers on every side … Henry David Thoreau

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. … John Muir

…the sun shines bright and warm this first spring morning, re-creating the world … …Henry David Thoreau

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune intoned in the distance by an invisible player … Albert Einstein

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. … Hal Borland

It’s spring fever… you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so bad … Mark Twain

Is it so small a thing To have enjoy’d the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done… … Robert Frost

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