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Seasons

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

Summer breeze, light fluffy clouds… Mother Nature has a canvas for every season. – Terri Guillemets

Look to the seasons when choosing your cures. – Hippocrates

The sun shines different ways in winter and summer. We shine different ways in the seasons of our lives. – Terri Guillemets

We humans were clearly highly seasonal beasts until the coming of electric light but traces remain. – Brian Follett

If spring betrays summer, would autumn never arrive? – Terri Guillemets

Perfect winter weather is a great caffeine, while perfect summer weather is the best sedative. – Terri Guillemets

Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June. – Al Bernstein

Here comes February, a little girl with her first valentine, a red bow in her wind-blown hair, a kiss waiting on her lips, a tantrum just back of her laughter. – Hal Borland

March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes and a laugh in her voice. – Hal Borland

Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. – Hal Borland

The year – Robert Browning

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sere.
Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead;
They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit – William Cullen Bryant

When chill Novembers surly blast make fields and forest bare. – Robert Burns

Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. – Samuel Butler

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. – Thomas Carlyle

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. – Willa Cather

Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,
Whether the summer clothe the general earth
With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing
Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch
Of mossy apple tree. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

January, month of empty pockets! Let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producers forehead. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face. – John Donne