[Flowering Earth] [Author Quotes

“Why is it sad to be happy? Why is there sorrow in this return, so longed for, and so unfailing? That look of life on the tree tops, not yet genuinely the color of it, is no surprise. A million million of springs, and many million more, have come as they promised to come. And gone again. On this day I first felt regret that spring must always go, and that when I am gone it will forever return.”
― Donald Culross Peattie, [Flowering Earth] [Author: Peattie, Donald Culross] [October, 1991]