| A few Spring Quotations
from
The Anne of Green Gables Treasury of Days
Spring had come once more to Green Gables -- the beautiful, capricious, reluctant Canadian spring, lingering along through April and May in a succession of sweet, fresh, chilly days, with pink sunsets and miracles of resurrection and growth.
The maples in Lover's Lane were red-budded and little curly ferns pushed up around the Dryad's Bubble.
...winter was over and gone with the thrill of delight that spring never fails to bring to the oldest and saddest as well as to the youngest and merriest.
...almost before Anne realized it, spring had come again to Green Gables and all the world was abloom once more.
...tiny ferns were unrolling like curly-headed green pixy folk wakening up from a nap.
All the basins among the hills were brimmed with topaz and emerald light.
"Everything is new in the spring.... Springs themselves are always so new, too. No spring is ever just like any other spring. It always has something of its own to be its own peculiar sweetness."
The land was tender with brand-new, golden-green, baby leaves.
Early oats greened over the red fields; apple orchards flung great blossoming arms about the farmhouses and the Snow Queen adorned itself as a bride for her husband.
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