Seasons

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. ~ Ecclesiastes

Seasons are divisions of the year, marked by changes in weather, ecology, and hours of daylight.

Quotes

• Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,
  Whether the summer clothe the general earth
  With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing
  Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch
  Of mossy apple-tree, while the nigh thatch
  Smokes in the sunthaw; whether the eve-drops fall,
  Heard only in the trances of the blast,
  Or if the secret ministry of frost
  Shall hang them up in silent icicles,
  Quietly shining to the quiet moon.
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Frost at Midnight (1798)

• What does winter or autumn or spring or summer know of memory. They know nothing of memory. They know that seasons pass and return. They know that they are seasons. That they are time. And they know how to affirm themselves. And they know how to impose themselves. And they know how to maintain themselves, What does autumn know of summer. What sorrows do seasons have. None hate. None love. They just pass.
  • Giannina Braschi, from the "Pastoral" in "Empire of Dreams" (1994)

• To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
  A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, a time to pluck up that which is planted;
  A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
  A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
  A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
  A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
  A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
  A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
  • Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (KJV) · Dual language presentations

• Nuto, who had never really gone away, still wanted to understand the world and change it, and upset the cycle of the seasons. Or perhaps he didn't, and still believed only in the moon. But I, who didn't believe in the moon, knew that when all was said and done only the seasons matter and they are in your bones and they nurtured you when you were a boy.
  • Cesare Pavese, The moon and the bonfire, chapter X, p. 60

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 694-95.

• Our seasons have no fixed returns,
  Without our will they come and go;
  At noon our sudden summer burns,
  Ere sunset all is snow.
  • James Russell Lowell, To—

• Autumn to winter, winter into spring,
  Spring into summer, summer into fall.—
  So rolls the changing year, and so we change;
  Motion so swift, we know not that we move.
  • Dinah Craik, Immutable

• January grey is here,
  Like a sexton by her grave;
  February bears the bier,
  March with grief doth howl and rave,
  And April weeps—but, O ye hours!
  Follow with May's fairest flowers.
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dirge for the Year, Stanza 4

• Ah! well away!
  Seasons flower and fade.
  • Alfred Tennyson, Every Day hath its Night