quotations about winter
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again."
LEWIS CARROLL
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
I stood and watched the water and knew something had ended, that winter was gone and with it things undone and pledges unfulfilled.
MITCH MODE
"Outdoor Adventure", Star Journal, March 17, 2017
What did the tree say after a long winter? What a re-leaf ...
NIC LOYD & LINDA WEIFORD
"Weathercatch: Why it was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad winter", The Spokesman-Review, April 5, 2017
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
CHARLES DICKENS
Great Expectations
His breath like silver arrows pierced the air,
The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet,
His finger on all flowing waters sweet
Forbidding lay--motion nor sound was there:--
Nature was frozen dead,--and still and slow,
A winding sheet fell o'er her body fair,
Flaky and soft, from his wide wings of snow.
FANNY KEMBLE
Winter
Winter is a time to slow. To grab hold of that wheel that spins your days too quickly and give it a firm tug. To let your thoughts catch up with your body. To pin down that idea that's been circling your mind for months. To remember that life isn't an emergency.
KELSI TURNER
"Winter's Wisdom", Bemidji Pioneer, February 7, 2016
The simplest way of coping with winter is to die in autumn.
J. B. S. HALDANE
Everything Has a History
Normally, spring is a lovely, wonderful time of year. A time of flowers, warm weather, Red Sox baseball, our favorite seasonal places reopening, reconnecting with nature, all the good stuff that lets us know winter is over.
CATHY SUMMERS
"The 'Crud' is Goind Around...", Cape Cod News, April 11, 2017
Everywhere I go I hear comments that this is the longest winter ever, that people are just sick of it and that they'll never spend another winter here if at all possible. But not in my house. I have spent many decades now with that other guy, the one who gleefully checks weather reports online to see when it's going to snow and smiles broadly when he looks out the window and sees his dreams coming true in the form of big fat snowflakes. Happily he dons his winter apparel and out he goes to shovel the walk and driveway, twice a day or more if necessary. Couldn't be happier.
STEFANIE PETTIT
"Front Porch: For some, winter is a time of joy", The Spokesman-Review, March 15, 2017
Do they worst, Winter, but know, but know
That, when the Spring cometh, a blossom shall blow.
JOHN BANISTER TABB
"On the Forthcoming Volume of Sidney Lanier's Poems"
Winter is not an end. It is in transit. It is headed to bankruptcy. The sheriff will sell its stock for what he can get and an ice man will be the only bidder at the sale.
WILLIAM A. QUAYLE
"Headed Into Spring", The Sanctuary, March 17, 1921
When I was younger the winter was my favorite. It was my birthday and it was New Year's and it was snowmen and snowball fights and snow angels.
STEN SPINELLA
"Storytime with Sten: The melancholy of winter, the pressure of summer", Daily Campus, March 20, 2017
The winter is a slow time, but it's not lifeless. As you huddle against the cold on a February day, you may be ready for spring to come. But all around you, there are other forms of life that are ready too.
BETH BOTTS
"Winter wildlife: There's something alive out there in the garden", Chicago Tribune, February 24, 2016
Now shiv'ring nature mourns her ravish'd charms,
And sinks supine in winter's frozen arms.
MRS. LEAPOR
"Winter", Poems by Eminent Ladies
Winter is a time for spiraling inward and rejuvenating -- the counterbalance for the active, light-filled, busy times.
JACINTA FERRARI
"Appreciating and embracing the winter season", Penticton Western News, January 28, 2016
What's the point of complaining? We live in the north. Winter exists.
VIKI MATHER
"You might as well learn to love the winter", Northern Life, February 8, 2016
Winter is ruthless and sometimes sullen and murderous. The wild winter North has gulped ten thousand summers down nor left a froth of sunshine on its lips.
WILLIAM A. QUAYLE
"Headed Into Spring", The Sanctuary, March 17, 1921
Winter's not gone yet, if the wild-geese fly that way.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Lear
Winter is the time of sacred balance and rejuvenation of life in preparation for the coming spring. It represents abundance, teaching and gratitude.
NOELLE VIGNOLA
Into Your Meditation: Metaphors On Essential Elements of a Meditation Practice
And now spring comes tripping along, and thanks to the brutal winter, we will be better than ever, fly higher thanks to having sunk so low, perhaps even achieve magnificence of some sort.
GARRISON KEILLOR
"If adversity is good for us, we'll be great", Alaska Dispatch News, April 10, 2017