Weather

The snow is sparkling like a million little suns. – Lama Willa Miller

Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping in ditch and gutter, and disguising in the same suit of spotless livery all objects upon which they fall. – John Burroughs, “The Snow-Walkers,” 1866

Earth and rain—dust and desire—what mingled odor of these is not sweet? – Virginia Garland, “The Rain,” Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the Ne

I used to stare up at the sky trying to see where the snowflakes were born. I could do it for hours. Well, minutes. But it was always the waiting that was the most fun. – Author unknown, from a package of Starbucks coffee, 2010

The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears. – John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk To the Gulf

Still occasionally mistaking brightness for warmth. – Rob Temple, @SoVeryBritish (Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourse

I yearn for flowers that bend with the wind and rain. – Tso Ssu

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. – Jonathan Swift

I like people who smile when it’s raining. – Author unknown

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling. – John Steinbeck

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery. – Bill Watterson

[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove. – John Burroughs, “The Snow-Walkers,” 1866

My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather. – Terri Guillemets, “April morning on the patio,” 1988

The thunderhead collects out over the distant plain giving a show of what is to come. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning. – C.H. Spurgeon

Only those in tune with nature seem to pick up on the energy in wind. All sorts of things get swept off in the breeze — ghosts, pieces of soul, voices unsung, thoughts repressed, love uncherished, and a thousands galore of spiritual ether. – Terri Guillemets, “Free but homesick,” 2005

When there’s snow on the ground, I like to pretend I’m walking on clouds. – Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo video game) written by Takayuki Ikkaku, Ar

It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man’s energy. – Arthur Conan Doyle

[T]here has been a violent storm and rain…. This morning shone as bright as if it meant to make up for all the dismalness of the past days. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, journal, 1841 October 7th

The sun lay like a friendly arm across her shoulder. – Margorie Kinnan Rawlings, South Moon Under