Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.
~Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
~Robin Williams

Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer.
~Geoffrey B. Charlesworth

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
~Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe

Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
~George Herbert

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
~Charles Dickens

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.
~Charles Dudley Warner

Awake, thou wintry earth -Fling off thy sadness!Fair vernal flowers, laugh forthYour ancient gladness!
~Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.
~Ruth Stout

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.
~Proverb

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
~Doug Larson

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

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.
~Anne Bradstreet

The year's at the springAnd day's at the morn;Morning's at seven;The hillside's dew-pearled;The lark's on the wing;The snail's on the thorn;God's in His heaven -All's right with the world!
~Robert Browning

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

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.
~Virgil A. Kraft

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
~Hal Borland

Where man sees but withered leaves,God sees sweet flowers growing.
~Albert Laighton

That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.
~Winifred Mary Letts

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
~Aldo Leopold

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
~Margaret Atwood

Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.
~Ogden Nash

And Spring arose on the garden fair,Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breastrose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Sensitive Plant"

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

Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men.
~Chinese Proverb

The naked earth is warm with Spring,And with green grass and bursting treesLeans to the sun's kiss glorying,And quivers in the sunny breeze.
~Julian Grenfell

In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.
~Mark Twain

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring. Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature's rebirth?
~Edward Giobbi

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

The sun was warm but the wind was chill.You know how it is with an April day.
~Robert Frost

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
~George Santayana

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
~Henry Van Dyke

If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom.
~Terri Guillemets

Spring is not the best of seasons.Cold and flu are two good reasons;wind and rain and other sorrow,warm today and cold tomorrow.
~Author Unknown

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
~William Shakespeare

Out with the cold, in with the woo.
~E. Marshall, "Spring Thought"

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

Yesterday the twig was brown and bare;To-day the glint of green is there;Tomorrow will be leaflets spare;I know no thing so wondrous fair,No miracle so strangely rare.I wonder what will next be there!
~L.H. Bailey

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

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
~Wallace Stevens

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, "Hot Weather," One Man's Meat, 1944

Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire.
~Virgil

First a howling blizzard woke us,Then the rain came down to soak us,And now before the eye can focus -Crocus.
~Lilja Rogers

May is a pious fraud of the almanac.
~James R. Lowell

You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland.
~Paul Fleischman

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
~Rogers Hornsby

The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.
~Arthur Rubenstein

Thank you to Michael Garofalo of The Spirit of Gardeningfor sharing some of these quotations!