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

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

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

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only. – Joseph Wood Krutch