This Asian proverb may tout the balance of nature, but it's literal message is wrong.

I am from the coldest part of the United States. I can assure you that during midwinter when it is below zero, animals and birds, in particular, are hurting. Great numbers are killed by predators who are also starving until spring. Most of the pain and carnage is unseen by human philosophers ensconced in their hideaways drinking tea by warm fire.

And when the heat and drought come in mid summer, plants and animals die universally. The death is necessary to prevent overpopulation of all species. But it is a violent world that is only seen if one counts the death toll amid the tranquility.

Ron

The four seasons do have "their definite times", but they curiously overlap sometimes as if the photo displayed, with springtime fruit tree flowers amid the snow showers of early spring. That too we humans have to deal with. . . the interruptions in our seasons.