“Some pretty little girl in a bonnet that inspires a Shakespearean sonnet. Better yet, a woman’s choice of millinery to...

“Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci

“Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.” ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss

“I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.” ~Langston Hughes  

“There is a kind of cult around Fritillaria meleagris—the snake’s head fritillary—to do with its looks and its name and...

“Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in...

“Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.” ~ George Bernard...

“Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.” ~ Leo Tolstoy  

“I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the...

“I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at.” ~...