“Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower when I thought a flower would grow.”

~ Abraham Lincoln

“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
 

~ Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”

~ Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”

~ Margaret Atwood, Author, Bluebeard's Egg