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“Snowstorms may yet whiten fields and gardens, high winds may howl about the trees and chimneys, but the little blue heralds persistently proclaim from the orchard and the garden that the spring procession has begun to move.”

May Littles Moving Tree Fields Wind Spring Garden Blue Howl Chimneys Orchard Procession Snowstorms

Book:Bird Neighbors: An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods about Our Homes

Source: Bird Neighbors: An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods about Our Homes

“After a snowstorm is the best time to be in the woods, because all the empty beer and soda cans and candy wrappers disappear, and you don't have to try as hard to be in another time. Plus there's just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on.”

Trying Hard Beautiful Walking Empty Woods Disappear Snow Beer Plus Candy Best Times Something Beautiful Soda Another Time Snowstorms

Book:Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel

Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel

“I always enjoyed the hearty society of a snowstorm.”

Heart Enjoyed Hearty Snowstorms

Book:John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.”

Source: Blue Highways: A Journey Into America

“When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and divinity fudge-egg whites, sugar and pecans, mostly. It was a lark then and I always associate divinity fudge with snowstorms.”

Children Made Mother Snow Ice Kitchen Divinity Eggs Sugar Cream Associates Ice Cream Larks Fudge Snowstorms Pecans

Book:Occasions: Selected Writings

Source: Occasions: Selected Writings

“The Northeast is being hit with a major snowstorm. Forecasters said they've haven't seen a whiteout like this since last week's Oscar nominations.”

Said Lasts Week Havens Majors Oscars Nominations Snowstorms

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.”

Men Dark Solitude Red Tongue Overcoat Snowstorms

Book:Harvest Poems: 1910-1960

Source: Harvest Poems: 1910-1960

“There is a glorious pattern for every man's life, an individual, perfect patter. No two people are alike ... No two leaves are alike-no two snowstorms-no two sets of fingerprints. No two lives are alike, yet each life holds a divine pattern of unfoldment, a great and holy destiny, rich in achievement and honor. As you live true to the pattern of yourself, that deep, inner self, you will unfold as perfect, as joyous, as naturally beautiful as the tree will reach its full measure of fulfillment.”

“If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.”

Ifs Trying Eye Lost Cases Worst Theater Theatre Elephants Playwright Crossings Nineteen Alps Snowstorms

Book:Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

“My teenage children watched Senator Clinton on the Today Show, mouths agape. They attended our local caucus with me and saw hundreds of our friends and neighbors gathered in the elementary school gym on that Sunday afternoon, despite an ugly Maine snowstorm. They listened to the thoughtful searching debates and saw us cast our votes. How could anyone suggest we didn't know exactly what we were doing? 'What's the point of electing someone who doesn't believe in the American people?' they asked. 'If she wants to ignore us now when she's only a candidate, what will she do as the President?'”

“There's always another storm. It's the way the world works. Snowstorms, rainstorms, windstorms, sandstorms, and firestorms. Some are fierce and others are small. You have to deal with each one separately, but you need to keep an eye on whats brewing for tomorrow.”

World Way Needs Eye Deals Tomorrow Storm Fierce Brewing Rainstorms Snowstorms Sandstorms

Author:Maria V. Snyder

“Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds”

Light Earth Night Black White Cities Tree Sky Winter Clouds Storm Gray Chicago Boundless Prairie Snowstorms City Lights Monochrome Gray Skies

Author:Barack Obama

“In my arms is a woman who has given me a Skywatcher's Cloud Chart, a woman who knows all my secrets, a woman who knows just how messed up my mind is, how many pills I'm on, and yet she allows me to hold her anyway. There's something honest about all this, and I cannot imagine any other woman lying in the middle of a frozen soccer field with me - in the middle of a snowstorm even - impossibly hoping to see a single cloud break free of a nimbostratus.”

Knows Mind Lying Given Secret Break Imagine Middle Honest Fields Arms Clouds Soccer Frozen Pills Messed Up Snowstorms

Book:The Silver Linings Playbook

Source: The Silver Linings Playbook

“Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience. To think of a plot that is, as Aristotle says, surprising and yet inevitable, is a lot, lot, lot of work.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Hard Play Audience Five Structure Inevitable Plot Surprising Trapped Snowstorms

Author:David Mamet

“The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it. The entire storm was two flakes.”

Two Fall Hours Records Storm Smallest Yards Flakes Snowstorms

Author:Richard Brautigan

“We had an electrical fault about 500 miles into the trip and lost more than half our fuel. We had a fire on the roof. And missed Los Angeles by 3,500 miles at the end of the trip and ending up in the arctic in a snowstorm.”

Ends Lost Half Fire Adventure Faults Miles Fuel Los Angeles Roof Electrical Arctic Snowstorms

Author:Richard Branson

“When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an odd-shaped flint-there are three sorts of human being who are particularly likely still to see point in it and befriend it. They are poets, scientists and children. Inside each of us, I suggest, representatives of all these groups can be found.”

Humans Children Stills Science Three Found Human Beings Race Groups Poet Scientist Odd Human Race Valleys Portions Representatives Crocodiles Dandelions Biosphere Snowstorms

Author:Mary Midgley

“Acting is like a snowstorm or perhaps a large empty vacuum. I`m not deluded by the fact that I'm getting all these offers for work, I'm very happy about it, but I know also that there is the other side and who knows, next year, they may not offer me anything. You never know.”

Knows Years May Facts Next Sides Acting Offers Empty Very Happy Next Year Vacuums Deluded Snowstorms

Author:Christopher Lee

“Openness by the leader paves the way for ownership by the people. Without ownership, changes will be short term. Changing people's habits and ways of thinking is like writing instructions in the snow during a snowstorm. Every twenty minutes the instructions must be rewritten, unless ownership is given along with instructions.”

People Thinking Way Writing Given Term Leadership Leader Minutes Habit Twenties Snow Openness Instruction Ownership Short Term Way Of Thinking Snowstorms

Book:Developing the Leader Within You

Source: Developing the Leader Within You

“A student undergoing a word association test was asked why a snowstorm put him in mind of sex. He replied frankly: "Because everything does."”

Mind Doe Sex Students Tests Association Funny Sex Snowstorms

Author:Honor Tracy

“In a way, I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an in-depth interview. I'd rather ride down the street on a camel nude. In a snowstorm. Backwards.”

Way Giving Sometimes Streets Depth Interviews Backwards Camels Snowstorms

Author:Warren Beatty

“The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.”

“I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.”

Littles Remember Girl Car Mom Late Singing My Mom Driving Chains Sixty Carolina North Carolina Carols Christmas Carol Snowstorms

Author:Tori Amos

“I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us”

Thinking Knows World Want Trying Believe May Fate Connections Bounds Deny Tied Drought Snowstorms

Author:Alice Hoffman

“Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was so dark and I was so weightless that I had to look for my bubbles to be sure which way was up. I swam backward a little away from the boat and into outer space and waved my arm through the water. Sure enough the phosphorescents appeared trailing my movement like the tail of a shooting star. I let myself tip upside down and floated there watching the gentle snowstorm marveling that a world of such strangeness existed here all the time just under the surface.”

Source: Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents

“It's easy to love the snow because at the end of every snowstorm it's as if the world has started over. There is no dirt, no footprints, just a layer of seamless, indiscriminate nature connecting everything to everything else. Isn't that the amazing thing about the natural world? You can tear it down, you can drill holes in it, you can ignore its power with all your might, but one morning you wake up and it has selflessly given despite all of our abuse. I think I'll make a snowman.”

“When I was a child... I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, 'Momma, do we believe in winter?'”

Believe Children Winter Hopefully Momma Snowstorms

Author:Philip Roth

“People feared snowstorms once. Hazel read about this all the time. Pioneers opened their front doors and saw they'd been entombed in snow overnight. They walked across malevolent swirling whiteness and did not know if they would survive. Nature can destroy us in a blink. We live on only at its pleasure. That was what looking at the witch was like.”

People Ifs Knows Pleasure Saws Doors Fronts Snow Witch Pioneers Blink Whiteness Front Doors Snowstorms

Author:Anne Ursu

“Is it Nice in your snowstorm- freezing your brain? Do you think that your face looks the same?”

Thinking Looks Faces Brain Nice Your Face Freezing Snowstorms

Author:David Bowie

“The sunbeams are welcome now. They seem like pure electricity—like friendly and recuperating lightning. Are we led to think electricity abounds only in summer, when we see in the storm-clouds as it were, the veins and ore-beds of it? I imagine it is equally abundant in winter, and more equable and better tempered. Who ever breasted a snowstorm without being excited and exhilarated, as if this meteor had come charged with latent auroræ of the North, as doubtless it has? It is like being pelted with sparks from a battery.”

Source: John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist

“Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.”

Democratic Snowstorms

Author:Bernard Williams