In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. – John Burroughs, “The Snow-Walkers,” 1866

The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together. – Vista M. Kelly