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Cultivated Words: on Winter

11/1/2014

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“Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves,
O flakes of snow,
For which, through naked trees, the winds
A-mourning go?”
― John B. Tabb
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“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, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
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I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.
― Andrew Wyeth
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"In winter, one witnesses the part of the garden that endures year to year: the soil, the lay of the land, perennials and the forms of trees. The annual garden is ephemeral - bright, hidden behind leafy vegetation and vivid colors. The winter garden is more subtle, cloaked in low light and short days.
― John Farrell
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"How can those who do not garden, who have no lot in the great fraternity of those who watch the changing year as it affects the earth and its growth, how can they keep warm their hearts in winter?"
― Francis King 
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“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter
to give it sweetness.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
― Hal Borland

"In the depths of winter I finally learned that within me
there lay an invincible summer."
―  Albert Camus 
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And Winter slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Work Without Hope 
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"Every gardener knows that under the cloak of winter lies a miracle ... a seed waiting to sprout, a bulb opening to the light, a bud straining to unfurl.  And the anticipation nurtures our dream."
― Barbara Winkler
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"There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter.  One is the January thaw.  The other is the seed catalogues."
― Hal Borland

Do you have words on winter to share?  Post in a comment. We love to hear from visitors.

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