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“Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. ”
William Alexander
“When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and divinity fudge-egg whites, sugar and pecans, mostly. It was a lark then and I always associate divinity fudge with snowstorms.”
Eudora Welty
“All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of wate”
Theodore Roethke
“I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.”
Ernest Shackleton
“For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: / So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”
Bible
“Lawn as white as driven snow”
William Shakespeare
“A lot of places away from the east are not going to get any snow although they might get the odd flurry coming through.”
Paul Knightley
“In beauty, faults conspicuous grow; the smallest speck is seen on snow”
John Gay
“Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field, frozen with snow.”
Langston Hughes
“A 'Grand Old Man'. That means on our continent any one with snow white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.”
Stephen Leacock
