Thursday Thirteen

Snow as of 5 p.m. yesterday (2/12/14)

1. Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know. -  Ralph Waldo Emerson 

2. So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending. - J.R.R. Tolkien 



3. Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. - Earl Wilson  

4. Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway." - Maya Angelou

Shoveling was futile.

5.  Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

6. The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. - Lao Tzu 

7. Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly, Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams go, Life is a barren field, Frozen with snow. - Langston Hughes 

8. The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. -
Margaret Atwood





9. Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. - Alice M. Swaim 

10. Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries. - John Muir

11.  As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. - William Shakespeare

12. 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

13.  Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
Andy Goldsworthy

Thursday Thirteen is played by lots of people; there is a list here. I've been playing for a while and this is my 331st time to do a list of 13 on a Thursday.