The moon was created for the counting of the days. Hebrew Midrash Text EVENTS IN THE SECOND WEEK OF MIDDLE SPRING: TURKEY GOBBLING WEEK

It is through the power of observation, the gifts of eye and ear, of tongue and nose and finger, that a place first rises up in our mind; afterwards it is memory that carries the place, that allows it to grow in depth and complexity. For as long as our records go back, we have held these two things dear, landscape and memory. Barry Lopez     

Many of the events of the annual cycle recur year after year in a regular order. A year-to-year record of this order is a record of the rates at which solar energy flows to and through living things. They are the arteries of the land. By tracing their responses to the sun, Phenology may eventually shed some light on that ultimate enigma, the land's inner workings.

At the end of the first month of spring, the yang ethers of heaven are said to waft down while the yin ethers of earth arise. They commingle harmoniously, and as a result grasses and trees begin to sprout…. In spring, nature reconnects the two existential essences and everything surges back to life. Liza Dalby

The world’s great age begin anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn. John Davies

During February’s brief thaw come gentle days when we gather pussy willow sprays and dream of the green season. Gladys Tabor (suggested by R.N.) EPHEMERIS FOR THE FIRST WEEK OF EARLY SPRING

This is February, and almost everything lies just below the surface, everything that has been and is still to come, ready to be opened. And my feelings slowly rise through the thaws and freezes and push me out into the sun and the mind of early spring. Notebook, February 3, 2004 THE ASTRONOMICAL OUTLOOK FOR THE THIRD WEEK OF LATE WINTER

Seeing into one’s “one nature,” far from being self-analysis – as if one were an object – is the perception, the experience of Nature as it manifests itself in me, outside me. This seeing-into is at the same time the leap out of the isolation of the Me into the community of being and things, in the absolute present, the Absolute Presence. Frederick Franck