An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all the hearts to behold the miraculous change.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Spring slips into even the most hidden places of the countryside and transforms them into mossy-green mansions of delight.