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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
O flakes of snow,
For which, through naked trees, the winds
A-mourning go?”
― John B. Tabb
Photo: morgueFile
“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
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Photo: naturalgardening.blogspot.com
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
― Andrew Wyeth
Photo: There Blooms a Garden
"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
― John Farrell
Photo: Johnson's Nursery
"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
― Francis King
Photo: www.bedfordaudubon.org
“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
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
Photo: There Blooms a Garden
And Winter slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Work Without Hope
Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Work Without Hope
Photo: morgueFile
"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
― Barbara Winkler
Photo: Sahara Kipfer
"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
― Hal Borland
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