Spring

The book of nature is like a page

written over or printed upon

with different-sized characters and in many different languages,

interlined and cross-lined,

and with a great variety

of marginal notes and references.

There is coarse print and fine print;

there are obscure signs and hieroglyphics.

We all read the large type more or less appreciatively,

but only the students and lovers of nature

read the fine lines and footnotes.

It is a book which he reads best who goes most slowly

or even tarries long by the way...

For my part,

my delight is to linger long over each page

of this marvelous record,

and to dwell fondly upon its most obscure text.

-John Burroughs

Spring.

Totally worth the wait.