Winter Thoughts

"The flowers of late winter and early spring 

occupy places in our hearts 

well out of proportion to their size."
~ Gertrude S. Wister ~

 

 

"I've been a dweller on the plains,
have sighed when summer days were gone;
No more I'll sigh; for winter here
Hath gladsome gardens of his own."
~ Dorothy Wordsworth ~ 

 

 

"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy." 

~ William Blake ~ 

 

 

"The cold was our pride, the snow was our beauty.   

It fell and fell, lacing day and night together in a milky haze, 

making everything quieter as it fell, 

so that winter seemed to partake of religion 

in a way no other season did, hushed, solemn."
~ Patricia Hampl ~  

 

"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure in the landscape - the loneliness of it - the dead feeling of winter.  Something waits beneath it - the whole story doesn't show."
~ Andrew Wyeth ~ 

 

 

"Have you ever noticed a tree 

standing naked against the sky,
How beautiful it is?  

All its branches are outlined, 

and in its nakedness
There is a poem, there is a song.  

Every leaf is gone and 

it is waiting for the spring. 
When the spring comes, 

it again fills the tree with
the music of many leaves, 

Which in due season fall 

and are blown away. 
And this is the way of life."
~ Krishnamurti ~

 

 

"In the depths of winter I finally learned 

that within me there lay an invincible summer."
~ Albert Camus ~

 

 

"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 ~

 

 

 "There is no season such delight can bring,
As summer, autumn, winter and the spring."
~ William Browne, 1630 ~

 

It's not quite winter yet ~ but it feels like it here!

Have a beautiful December day,
wherever you are!