“One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring.”

— Aldo Leopold, book A Sand County Almanac

“March: The Geese Return”, p. 18.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "January Thaw", "February: Good Oak" & "March: The Geese Return"

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