QuoteProject
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
ShareWTF𝕏

Interpretation

What this quote means

The quote describes the beauty of spring as a blend of sunshine and rain.

In this quote, Frances Hodgson Burnett captures the essence of spring as a time of renewal, where contrasting elements of nature—sunshine and rain—come together to create a vibrant and invigorating environment. This duality symbolizes hope and the interplay of joy and sadness in life, suggesting that beauty often arises from seemingly opposing forces.

Themes

SpringNatureBeautyRenewalSunshineRain

In practice

Example use cases

This quote can be used to inspire students during a spring writing assignment.

More from Frances Hodgson Burnett

And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.
Frances Hodgson BurnettRead
It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said, 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?
Frances Hodgson BurnettRead
As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.
Frances Hodgson BurnettRead
If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.
Frances Hodgson BurnettRead
Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.
Frances Hodgson BurnettRead
At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her blood had grown warm; she had been healthily hungry for the first time in her life; and she had found out what it was to be sorry for someone.
Frances Hodgson BurnettRead

Similar quotes

Nature knows best how to organise.
Maharishi Mahesh YogiRead
Many are outspoken about the climate crisis, but conveniently ignore the fact that support for fossil fuels is not just incompatible with curbing emissions but dangerously counterproductive.
Caroline LucasRead
Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.
Luther Standing BearRead
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.
John MuirRead
Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
Rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky.
RumiRead

A little wisdom, now and then

Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.

Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett | QuoteProject