Quote for Today: Jean-Christophe Valtat
The blizzard seemed to be dying down, and it was now possible to enjoy the sight of the buildings and embankments and bridges smothered in the diamond-dusted whiteness. There’s always …
Quote for Today: Edward Mills Purcell
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him …
Quote for Today: A Cherokee Blessing
May the warm winds of heaven blow softly upon your house. May the Great Spirit bless all who enter there. May your mocassins make happy tracks in many snows, and …
Quote for Today: Conrad Aiken
And the mist of snow, as he had foreseen, was still on it – a ghost of snow falling in the bright sunlight, softly and steadily floating and turning and …
Capturing Nature’s Handiwork: Snowflakes by Alexey Kljatov
Snowflakes reveal an astonishing level of detail and beauty. Macrophotography lets us get even closer to these miniature masterpieces. Looking at Alexey Kljatov’s stunning macrophotography, you might imagine that he …
Quote for Today: Danielle Trussoni
As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs into the powder, making snow …
Quote for Today: A.E. Housman
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, …
Quote for Today: Peter Høeg
Maybe it’s wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, the piercing knowledge that we ourselves will …
Quote for Today: Ashly Lorenzana
I’m falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below. —Ashly Lorenzana
Quote for Today: Sir Edmund Hillary
Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the …