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Spring(s) may refer to:

• Spring (season), a season of the year
• Spring (hydrosphere), a natural source of water
• Spring (device), a mechanical device that stores energy
• Spring (mathematics), a geometric surface in the shape of a helically-coiled tube

Art

• Primavera (painting) ("Spring"), a painting by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1482.
• Spring (painting), an oil by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
• Spring, a painting by Christopher Williams

Business

• Spring!, a brand of bottled water
• Spring Airlines, a Chinese airline
• Spring (store), a Canada-based shoe retailer

Computing

• Spring (operating system), an experimental operating system from Sun Microsystems
• Spring Framework, Spring for short, an open source application framework for the Java platform
• Spring project, an open-source RTS engine inspired by Total Annihilation
• SPRING, a GIS and remote sensing image processing system with an object-oriented data model

Fiction

• Spring (Runelords), a character in The Runelords series of fantasy novels by David Farland

Film and television

• The Spring, a 1989 film about the Fountain of Youth
• "Spring" (Pee-wee's Playhouse), an episode of Pee-wee's Playhouse
• Spring (television soap), a Flemish-Belgian television series

Music

Works

• "Spring" (concerto), "La primavera", from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons
• "Spring" (sonata), Violin Sonata No. 5 by Beethoven
• Symphony No. 1 (Schumann) (Spring), by Robert Schumann
• Spring Symphony, a symphony by Benjamin Britten
• In Spring, a symphony by John Knowles Paine
• "Spring" (Rammstein song)

Albums

• Spring (Cyann & Ben album)
• Spring (Finn Coren album)
  • Spring: The Appendix, a follow-up album
• Spring (Jon Foreman EP)
• Spring (Clay Hart album), an album by Clay Hart
• Spring, an EP by Subtle
• Pruzhinki (album) (English: Springs), an album by the Russian deejay Muffin

Performers

• Spring (band), an English band, or the band's only album
• Spring (American band), a 1970s pop music duo, known outside the U.S. as American Spring
• Spring (Belgian band), a group that performed at Marktrock 2004
• Springs, a Japanese band, formed by Aya Hirano, Yuuki Yoshida, Ayaka Itō

People

• Antoine Frédéric Spring, Belgian physician and botanist
• Dick Spring, Irish businessman and politician
• Dryden Spring, New Zealand businessman
• Howard Spring, Welsh author
• Jack Spring, American baseball pitcher
• Richard Spring, Conservative MP for Suffolk West
• Sherwood C. Spring, United States Army officer and astronaut
• Cecil Spring-Rice, British diplomat, Ambassador to the United States 1912 to 1918
• Spring Baronets of Pakenham

Places

• Springs, New York, a part of East Hampton, New York, US
• Springs, Pennsylvania, US
• Spring, Texas, US
• Springs, Gauteng, South Africa
• Şpring, a commune in Alba County, Romania

Other uses

• Springs Christian Academy, a private school in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
• SPRING Singapore, a governmental department of Singapore

See also

• Spring Lake (disambiguation)
• Spring River (disambiguation)
• Spring Township (disambiguation)
• Springtime (disambiguation)
• Category:Spring, for articles related to the season
• Category:Springs, for articles related to the water source
• Category:Springs (mechanical), for articles related to the device
• All pages beginning with "Spring"
• Sprung (disambiguation)

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From Wikiquote

Spring is one of the four seasons of temperate zones, the transition from winter into summer.

Sourced

• Come, gentle Spring! ethereal mildness, come.
  • James Thomson, Spring in The Seasons

• The flowers anew returning seasons bring,
  But beauty faded has no second spring.
  • Ambrose Philips, Pastoral

• If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind

• The year's at the spring,
  And day's at the morn;
  Morning's at seven;
  The hill-side's dew-pearl'd;
  The lark's on the wing;
  The snail's on the thorn;
  God's in His heaven--
  All's right with the world !　
  • Robert Browning, Pippa's Song in Pippa Passes

• Is it so small a thing
  To have enjoy'd the sun,
  To have lived light in the spring,
  To have loved, to have thought, to have done;
  • Matthew Arnold, "From the Hymn of Empedocles"

• Listen, can you hear it? Spring's sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart. Spring.
  • Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Wake Up Call, 1992

• O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!
  • William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 1 scene 3

• What does winter or autumn or spring or summer know of memory. They know nothing of memory. They know that seasons pass and return. They know that they are seasons. That they are time. And they know how to affirm themselves. And they know how to impose themselves. And they know how to maintain themselves, What does autumn know of summer. What sorrows do seasons have. None hate. None love. They just pass.
  • Giannina Braschi, in "Pastoral or the Inquisition of Memories" from "Empire of Dreams" (Yale).

• Nothing is so beautiful as Spring—
  When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
  Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
  Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
  The ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Spring"

Unsourced

• An optimist is the human personification of spring.
  • Susan J. Bissonette

• Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
  • Victor Hugo

• Love and flowers do not survive but one spring.
  • Pierre de Ronsard

• Spring is when life's alive in everything
  • Christina Rossetti

• To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
  • George Santayana

• The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
  • Henry van Dyke

• Spring is nature's way of saying "let's party!"
  • Robin Williams

• In the landscape of spring, there is neither better nor worse. The flowering branches grow naturally, some long, some short.
  • Zen saying

External links

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From Wikisource

Spring may refer to:

• Spring, a poem by William Blake.
• Spring, a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
• Spring, a poem by Eden Phillpotts.
• Spring, a poem by Christina Rossetti.
• Spring, a poem by William Shakespeare.
• Spring, a poem by Sara Teasdale.
• Spring, a poem by Alfred Tennyson.
• Spring, a poem by James Thomson.
• Spring, a poem by William Carlos Williams.
• Spring, a poem by Nathaniel Parker Willis.
• Spring, a poem by Abay Qunanbayuli.
• Spring, a poem by John Cowper Powys.

From LoveToKnow 1911

From Wikispecies

Botanist (1814-1872).

From BibleWiki

(Heb. 'ain, "the bright open source, the eye of the landscape"). To be carefully distinguished from "well" (q.v.). "Springs" mentioned in Josh. 10:40 (Heb. 'ashdoth) should rather be "declivities" or "slopes" (R.V.), i.e., the undulating ground lying between the lowlands (the shephelah) and the central range of hills.

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