„Is the spring coming?” he said. “What is it like?”…”It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…“

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

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„What countries, what visitations,what pompwould satisfy me as thoroughly as Blackwater Woodson a sun-filled morning, or, equally, in the rain?“
— Mary Oliver
„We all shine on… like the moon and the stars and the sun… we all shine on… come on and on and on…“
— John Lennon
„April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.“
— T.S. Eliot
„Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries, the offspring of the sun and sea.“
— John Muir