15386. “Spring is the season of crying and seeing nothing. Of choking up on someone else’s trash.” ― Franny Choi, Soft Science April 7, 2020

15385. “This is what l love about flowers. Wherever possible, they just grow; in between the weeds, through a crack in a stone, in the middle of mud or moss – they just grow fearlessly, so confident of their short-lived beauty.” ― Asma Naqi April 7, 2020

15384. “April is the kindest month. April gets you out of your head and out working in the garden.” ― Marty Rubin April 7, 2020

15383. “Spring is the intro of the eastertide” ― Lea R. Caguinguin April 7, 2020

15382. “The light catching in the drops that clung to the window cast tiny darts of rainbows that danced around them. “Spring is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine” ― Ella Griffin, The Flower Arrangement April 7, 2020

15381. “I’ve seen life accept endings, but I never seen life surrender to them.” ― Craig D Lounsbrough April 7, 2020

15380. “Everything is made new in the spring. Springs themselves are always so new, too. No spring is ever just like any other spring. It always has something of its own to be its peculiar sweetness.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island April 7, 2020

15379. “He smelled cold water and cold intrepid green. Those early flowers smelled like cold water. Their fragrence was not the still perfume of high summer; it was the smell of cold, raw green.” ― Paul Harding April 7, 2020

15378. “At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.” ― Angela Carter, Shadow Dance April 7, 2020

15377. “The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.” ― E.B. White, One Man’s Meat April 7, 2020

15375. “Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.” ― Joel Osteen April 7, 2020

15374. “Following dark winter’s strife, a warm air rises, teemed with life. Birth, rebirth, as the waiting die. Old love, new love sprouts wings to fly.” ― Phar West Nagle April 7, 2020

15373. “But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.” ― Mary balogh, A Matter of Class April 7, 2020

15372. “Despite the heart numbing frost, my soul is blooming like spring.” ― Debasish Mridha April 7, 2020

15371. “Spring is the fountain of love for thirsty winter” ― Munia Khan April 7, 2020

15370. “I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, “Never give up hope, spring will come.” ― Jessica Stern, Denial: A Memoir of Terror April 7, 2020

15369. “I love the smell of rain and growing things.” ― Serina Hernandez April 7, 2020

15368. “Something in the air this morning made me feel like flying. . . ” Spring Flight” ― Eileen Granfors, And More White Sheets: An expanded text edition April 7, 2020

15367. “Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald April 7, 2020

15366. “When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots is to paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots – it is not yet painting Spring.” ― Eihei Dogen April 7, 2020

15365.“Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?” ― Neltje Blanchan April 7, 2020

15364. “April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII)” ― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Sonnets April 7, 2020

15363. “From the end spring new beginnings.” ― Pliny the Elder April 7, 2020

15362. “At last came the golden month of the wild folk– honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the flowers come out, and the air is full of the sunrise scents and songs of the dawning year.” ― Samuel Scoville Jr., Wild Folk April 7, 2020

15361. “I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright.” ― Millard Kaufman, Bowl of Cherries April 7, 2020

15360. “Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren’t.” ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak April 7, 2020

15359. “Spring drew on…and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre April 7, 2020

15358. “Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.” ― E.E. Cummings, 100 Selected Poems April 7, 2020

15357. “I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing. And sweet to remember. We are nearer to Spring than we were in September. I heard a bird sing in the dark of December.” ― Oliver Herford April 7, 2020

15356. “April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves…a butterfly Floats and balances” ― Bashō, Japanese Haiku April 7, 2020

15355. “People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition April 7, 2020

15354. “Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” ― Lilly Pulitzer April 7, 2020

15353. “Or maybe spring is the season of love and fall the season of mad lust. Spring for flirting but fall for the untamed delicious wild thing.” ― Elizabeth Cohen, The Hypothetical Girl April 7, 2020

15352. “Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.” ― Virgil A. Kraft April 7, 2020

15351. “Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary April 7, 2020

15350. “Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.” ― John Muir, The Wilderness World of John Muir April 7, 2020

15349. “Dead my old fine hopes And dry my dreaming but still… Iris, blue each spring” ― Shushiki, Japanese Haiku April 7, 2020

15348. “I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.” ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle April 7, 2020

15347. “It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.” ― John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga April 7, 2020

15346. “We can’t possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name’s become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise April 7, 2020

15345. “The deep roots never doubt spring will come.” ― Marty Rubin April 7, 2020

15344. “I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.” ― Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room April 7, 2020

15343. “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 April 7, 2020

15342. “If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables April 7, 2020

15341. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind April 7, 2020

15340. Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.” ― Vladimir Nabokov, Mary April 7, 2020

15339. “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” [Meditations Divine and Moral]” ― Anne Bradstreet, The Works of Anne Bradstreet April 7, 2020

15338. “Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.” ― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s April 7, 2020

15337. “It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke April 7, 2020

15336. “Is the spring coming?” he said. “What is it like?”… “It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden April 7, 2020

15335. “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” ― Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard’s Egg April 7, 2020

15334. “What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.” ― Kobayashi Issa, Poems April 7, 2020

15333. “Spring is the time of plans and projects.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina April 7, 2020

15332. “Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer April 7, 2020

15331. “Our labor preserves us from three great evils — weariness, vice, and want.” ― Voltaire, Candide April 7, 2020

15330. “What kind of life can you have in a house without books?” ― Sherman Alexie, Flight April 7, 2020

15329. “… millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” ― Susan Ertz April 7, 2020

15328. “The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy April 7, 2020

15327. “The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.” ― Michel Houellebecq April 7, 2020

15326. “I really think I write about everyday life. I don’t think I’m quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that’s what makes it so boring.” ― Edward Gorey April 7, 2020

15325. “The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.” ― Albert Camus, The Plague April 7, 2020

15324. “Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?” ― Friedrich Nietzsche April 7, 2020

15323. “I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.” ― Louis C.K. April 7, 2020

15322. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” ― Émile Zola, The Ladies’ Paradise April 7, 2020

15321. “I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.” ― Shelby Foote April 7, 2020

15320. “There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.” ― G.K. Chesterton April 7, 2020

15319. “She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.” ― Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings April 7, 2020

15318. “But dandelions were what she chiefly saw. Yellow jewels for everyday studding the patched green dress of her back yard. She liked their demure prettiness second to their everydayness; for in that latter quality she thought she saw a picture of herself, and it was comforting to find that what was common could also be a flower.” ― Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha April 7, 2020

15317. “There are no gods, thank god, but there are dandelions. Go out and pick some.” ― Marty Rubin April 7, 2020

15316. “For honey bees, a dandelion is the first sign of Spring!” ― June Stoyer April 7, 2020

15315. “Knowing even as I craved permanence in New York City, that would never come to pass. The pair of us would live for as long as we could. As well as well could. That was all. Then we’d blow away like wishes made on dandelion heads.” ― Lyndsay Faye, The Fatal Flame April 7, 2020

15314. “I turn and run, watching my feet trample a massacre of weeds. I mourn them. The only thing that grows is dandelions in the cracks of the sidewalk and we always end up killing them.” ― Ellie Lieberman, Society’s Foundlings April 7, 2020

15313. “About this grass now. I didn’t finish telling. It grows so close it’s guaranteed to kill off clover and dandelions-” “Great God in heaven! That means no dandelion wine next year! That means no bees crossing our lot! You’re out of your mind, son” ― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine April 7, 2020

15312. “Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.” ― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye April 7, 2020

15311. “But her wishes were so heavy for something so light” ― Lauren Kate, Fallen April 7, 2020

15310. “So little Moon Pig put her snout into the soft dandelion head, which was round, and glowing, just like the moon. She blew and blew…” ― Suzy Davies, Luna The Moon Pig: The Pig Who Hid April 7, 2020

15309. “Does poem also walk through the valleys seeking tongues from dandelions?” ― Ymatruz April 7, 2020

15308. “Many a wishes that I blew, finding myself was the one that came true.” ― Anamika Sharma April 7, 2020

15307. “In a world full of roses, stand out like a dandelion in the middle of a green, plush lawn!” ― June Stoyer April 7, 2020

15306. “… on the lawn one late summer day, her pale hair tangled because she’d cry if anyone tried to brush it, spinning around and around until she got so dizzy she fell in a pile of bare feet and dandelions and sundress.” ― Holly Black April 7, 2020

15305. “Dandelions are just friendly little weeds who only want to be loved like flowers.” ― Heather Babcock April 7, 2020

15304. “Last summer I spent almost an hour blowing dandelions off their stems towards him, so that he had a chance to wish for everything he wanted.” ― Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox April 7, 2020

15303. “Dandelions, like all things in nature are beautiful when you take the time to pay attention to them.” ― June Stoyer April 7, 2020

15302. “I was a dandelion puff…Some saw the beauty in me and stooped quietly to admire my innocence. Others saw the potential of what I could do for them, so they uprooted me, seeking to shape me around their needs. They blew at my head, scattering my hair from the roots, changing me to suit them. Yet still others saw me as something that was unworthy and needed to be erased.” ― Nicole Bailey-Williams April 7, 2020

15301. “Most of the dandelions had changed from suns into moons.” ― Vladimir Nabokov April 7, 2020

15300. Art Institute of Chicago April 7, 2020

15299. Art Institute of Chicago April 7, 2020

15298. Art Institute of Chicago April 7, 2020

15297. Art Institute of Chicago April 7, 2020

15296. Art Institute of Chicago April 7, 2020

15295. Art Institute of Chicago April 7, 2020

15294. Art Institute of Chicago April 7, 2020

15293. Art Institute of Chicago April 7, 2020

15292. “I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.” ― John Bartlett April 7, 2020

15291. “Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love.” ― Thomas M. Disch, The Brave Little Toaster April 7, 2020

15290. “As soon as I turned the key I saw it hanging, the color of fire and sunset. the colour of flamboyant flowers. ‘If you are buried under a flamboyant tree, ‘ I said, ‘your soul is lifted up when it flowers. Everyone wants that.’ She shook her head but she did not move or touch me.” ― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea April 7, 2020

15289. “An enemy is like a man’s most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground.” ― David Gemmell, Echoes of the Great Song April 7, 2020

15288. “How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.” ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta” ― Mother Teresa April 7, 2020

15287. “What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?” ― Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom April 7, 2020

15286. “Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don’t pluck them!” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan April 7, 2020

15285. “Look, hasn’t my body already felt like the body of a flower?” ― Mary Oliver April 7, 2020

15284. “By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.” ― Vernon Howard April 7, 2020

15283. “Flowers are the Romeos and the Juliets of the nature!” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan April 7, 2020

15282. “… on the lawn one late summer day, her pale hair tangled because she’d cry if anyone tried to brush it, spinning around and around until she got so dizzy she fell in a pile of bare feet and dandelions and sundress.” ― Holly Black April 7, 2020

15281. “Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.” ― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step April 7, 2020

15280. “Love is like dried flowers sometimes. Even though you watch the petals shrink and change colour, you cannot help treasuring them” ― Munia Khan April 7, 2020

15279. “Writing blooms flowers for mind, which last forever.” ― Debasish Mridha April 7, 2020

15278. “It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Naval Treaty April 7, 2020

15277. “The flowers like me back.” ― John H. Carroll, Rojuun April 7, 2020

15276. “Flowers don’t tell, they show. That’s the way good books should be too.”–Stephanie Skeem. Author of Flotsam” April 7, 2020

15275. “I love your roots, not the flower everybody sees!” ― Akilnathan Logeswaran April 7, 2020

15274. “Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.” ― Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill: The Back-Fence Virtues of Faith and Friendship April 7, 2020

15273. “One person’s weed is another person’s wildflower.” ― Susan Wittig Albert, An Unthymely Death and Other Garden Mysteries April 7, 2020

15272. Fresh Out of the Oven April 7, 2020

15271. Chocolate Chip Cookies with Bacon April 7, 2020

15270. Chocolate Chip Cookies (with Bacon!) April 7, 2020

15269. Pesto Sausage Pasta April 7, 2020

15268. Homemade Poutine April 7, 2020

15267. Homemade Poutine April 7, 2020

15266. Homemade Pot Stickers April 7, 2020

15265. Homemade Pot Stickers April 7, 2020

15264. Chocolate Chia Pudding with Pomegranate Seeds April 7, 2020

15263. Chili Oil Basted Noodles with a Fried Egg April 7, 2020

15262. “Leaves are love letters that fall from the sky, in the brightest of colors see how they fly! from the fall/autumn poem, Step Out in Color!” ― Suzy Davies, Celebrate The Seasons April 7, 2020

15261. “Autumn serenades the breeze into dancing a cha cha cha; the mountains echo in the background. October sky never looked more charming nor the sublime leaves of the trees so graceful.” ― Avijeet Das April 7, 2020

15260. “To ask why we fall in love is to ask why the leaves fall. And to ask how we stay in love is to ask how the trees stay.” ― Jimvirle/Jinvirle April 7, 2020

15259. “Come, little leaves,” said the Wind one day, “Come to the meadows with me and play. Put on your dresses of red and gold; For Summer is past, and the days grow cold.” ― George Cooper April 7, 2020

15258. “Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go?” ― John Banister Tabb April 7, 2020

15257. “In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that’s the way new leaves grow.” ― Amit Ray April 7, 2020

15256. “Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.” ― May Sarton April 7, 2020

15255. “Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.” ― Luther Burbank April 7, 2020

15254. “I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.” ― Herbert Rappaport April 7, 2020

15253. “If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the stars are a riot of flowers.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince April 7, 2020

15252. “I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.” ― D. Antoinette Foy April 7, 2020

15251. “Sometimes I wake up and lie still enough to hear a petal drop from the vase of flowers. Sometimes I lie awake and wish there was someone to hear my falling.” ― Simon Van Booy, The Illusion of Separateness April 7, 2020

15250. “Yes, just like those flowers. There’s something strained, but there’s beauty in that. Something like that” ― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale April 7, 2020

15249. “Everyone mourns the first blossom. Who will grieve the rest who fall?” ― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars April 7, 2020

15248. “In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.” ― Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love April 7, 2020

15247. “A fallen blossom returning to the bough, I thought — But no, a butterfly.” ― Arakida Moritake, Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology April 7, 2020

15246. “Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.” ― Paul A.M. Dirac April 7, 2020

15245. “I’ll cover you in flowers someday, Julie-girl.” ― Lurlene McDaniel, Don’t Die, My Love April 7, 2020

15244. “I have lost my smile, but don’t worry. The dandelion has it.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life April 7, 2020

15243. “It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this “once in a thousand years” has come today.” ― Zamyatin, We April 7, 2020

15242. “Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.” ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays April 7, 2020

15241. “Don’t let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free April 7, 2020

15240. “God will reward you,’ he said. ‘You must be an angel since you care for flowers.” ― Victor Hugo April 7, 2020

15239. “Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.” ― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic April 7, 2020

15238. “Some women feel the need to act like they’re never scared, needy or hurt; like they’re as hardened as a man. I think that’s dishonest. It’s ok to feel delicate sometimes. Real beauty is in the fragility of your petals. A rose that never wilts isn’t a rose at all.” ― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 3 April 7, 2020

15237. “Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.” ― Georgia O’Keeffe, Georgia O’Keeffe April 7, 2020

15236. “Butterflies are not insects,’ Captain John Sterling said soberly. ‘They are self-propelled flowers.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls April 7, 2020