Question

spring season starts in march. im preparing the house for the arrival of new guests. i look forward to having a houseful of young poets again. i leave the house maybe only once a day to check the mailbox up on the road, or occasionally to take my car out of the garage and go buy provisions. the last few days ive heard birds calling from the thicket, and that makes me think of spring coming! and done a little internal dance. i remember several past springs. when i was teaching in northfield, minnesota, i took my irish setter, piper, for several long walks every day. i remember noticing things one spring that id never noticed before, wondering whether theyd always been there and id just been blind, or whether the details of this particular spring were different. i remember thousand little things that anyone would notice if there were ten or a hundred realizing that there would be something new to notice every spring, if i paid attention. had i not noticed this before? were sidewalks littered every march with red bud - covers? i remember feeling that everything was somehow more magical than usual, and that i didnt want to miss a thing. the world was changing, growing, unfolding, like an infant who learns several new things every day. that spring taught me the importance of attentiveness to the moment. i spent one spring semester teaching english in hamburg, germany. there i walked almost every day from my apartment near the university to the beautiful promenade along the banks of alster lake, where i strolled through the crowds of lovers and families. i was savoring leaves of grass that spring. every step i took - on the cement sidewalks of the side streets lined with impeccably kept apartment buildings, and on the white gravel paths of the park with its manicured greens, white benches, and the lake beyond - seemed, somehow, blessed by the loving sagacity and the soaring verbal beauty of whitmans poetry. “who was not proud of his songs, but of what is the main outcome of this realization? 1. the authors return to germany to teach during the spring semester. 2. the author decides to learn the names of the flowers she likes the best. 3. the author begins to pay attention to the sequence in which plants bloom. 4. the author sees the importance of sharing her enthusiasm for spring with friends.

Explanation:

The passage describes the author's realization during spring - that there would be something new to notice every spring. The main outcome of the realization is that in Minnesota, there would be something new to notice every spring.

Answer:

1. The author states that in Minnesota there would be something new to notice every spring.