Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may will call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels. – Author unknown