Live in each season
as it passes;
breathe the air,
drink the drink,
taste the fruit,
and resign yourself
to the influences of each.
-Henry David Thoreau
To stay in one place
and watch the seasons come and go
is tantamount to constant travel:
one is traveling with the earth.
-Marguerite Yourcenar
There is no season
such delight can bring
as summer, autumn,
winter and the spring.
-William Browne
The seasons are
what a symphony
ought to be:
four perfect movements
in harmony with each other.
-Arthur Rubenstein
Winter is an etching,
spring a water color,
summer an oil painting
and autumn
a mosaic of them all.
-Stanley Horowitz
Spring has its hundred flowers,
Autumn its moon.
Summer has
its cooling breezes,
Winter its snow.

If you allow no idle concerns
To weigh on your heart,
Your whole life will be one
Perennial good season.
-Wu-men
When winter is upon the land,
there is nothing for the seed to do but wait.
When spring appears,
there is nothing for the bud to do but blossom.
When summer unfolds,
there is nothing for the fruit to do but ripen.
And when autumn comes,
there is nothing for the fruit to do but fall.
-Ann Mortifee
Winter draws
what summer paints.
-Elizabeth Bibesco
I prefer winter and fall,
when you feel the bone structure
of the landscape -
the loneliness of it,
the dead feeling of winter.
Something waits beneath it,
the whole story doesn't show.
-Andrew Wyeth
Spring passes
and one remembers innocence.
Summer passes
and one remembers exuberance.
Autumn passes
and one remembers reverence.
Winter passes
and one remembers perseverance.
-Yoko Ono
I like spring, but it is too young.
I like summer, but it is too proud.
So I like best of all autumn,
because its leaves are a little yellow,
its tone mellower, its colours richer,
and it is tinged a little with sorrow
and a premonition of death.
Its golden richness speaks
not of the innocence of spring,
nor of the power of summer,
but of the mellowness
and kindly wisdom of approaching age.
It knows the limitations of life and is content.
-Lin Yutang
In spring, summer and fall
people sort of have an open season
on each other;
only in the winter, in the country,
can you have longer quiet stretches
when you can savor
belonging to yourself.
-Ruth Stout
A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period -
When March is scarcely here
-Emily Dickinson