“Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.” — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. “Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.” — Vladimir Nabokov “Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.” — Lewis Grizzard “Spring is the time of plans and projects.” — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina “With the coming of spring, I am calm again.” — Gustav Mahler “April prepares her green traffic light, and the world thinks: Go.” — Christopher Morley “In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside 24 hours.” — Mark Twain “Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.” — W. Earl Hall “The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.”…