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Vernal Equinox March 20, 2010 1:32 PM EDT

Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is rapture in the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but nature more.
Lord Byron

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Douglas Adams

It was a lover and his lass,
   With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
 That o'er the green corn-field did pass,
   In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
 When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
         Sweet lovers love the spring.
 
 Between the acres of the rye,
   With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
 These pretty country folks would lie,
   In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
  When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
 Sweet lovers love the spring.
 
 This carol they began that hour,
   With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, 
How that life was but a flower
  In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
 When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding; 
Sweet lovers love the spring.
 
 And, therefore, take the present time 
  With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
  For love is crown`d with the prime
 In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
 Sweet lovers love the spring.
William Shakespeare

If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall.
Stair Nadine

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