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I know the song that the bluebird is singing, Out in the apple-tree where he is swinging; Brave little fellow, the skies may look dreary; Nothing cares he while his heart is so cheery. Hark! how the music leaps out from his throat, Hark! was there ever so merry a note? Listen awhile and you’ll hear what he’s saying, Up in the apple-tree swinging and swaying. “Dear little blossoms down under the snow, You must be weary of winter, I know; Hark, while I sing you a message of cheer; Summer is coming and spring-time is here!” “Little white snowdrop! I pray you arise; Bright yellow crocus! come, open your eyes; Sweet little violets, hid from the cold, Put on your mantles of purple and gold; Daffodils! daffodils! say, do you hear?– Summer is coming and spring-time is here!” 'The Bluebird', by Emily Huntington Miller

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“Dear little blossoms down under the snow, You must be weary of winter, I know; Hark, while I sing you a message of cheer; Summer is coming and spring-time is here!”

“Little white snowdrop! I pray you arise; Bright yellow crocus! come, open your eyes; Sweet little violets, hid from the cold, Put on your mantles of purple and gold; Daffodils! daffodils! say, do you hear?– Summer is coming and spring-time is here!”

-excerpt from 'The Bluebird', by Emily Huntington Miller

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

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

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“If children grow up not knowing about nature and appreciating it, they will not understand it, and if they don’t understand it, they won’t protect it, and if they don’t protect it, who will?” ~ Sir David Attenborough, ‘Conserving Wonder’

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“If children grow up not knowing about nature and appreciating it, they will not understand it, and if they don’t understand it, they won’t protect it, and if they don’t protect it, who will?” ~ Sir David Attenborough, ‘Conserving Wonder’

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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 

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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 

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"It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.”  ~ Karen Armstrong

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"It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.”  ~ Karen Armstrong

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Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.  ~Margaret Elizabeth Sangster  

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Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.  ~Margaret Elizabeth Sangster  

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“Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.” ~ T.S. Eliot

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“Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.” ~ T.S. Eliot

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Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. ~ Ludwig van Beethoven

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Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

~ Ludwig van Beethoven

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Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever. ~  Rumi