Winter Season Quotes - Page 2

• He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

  John Burroughs

  Summer, Winter, World

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.123, Courier Corporation

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• What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.

  John Burroughs

  Winter, Artist, Canvas

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.124, Courier Corporation

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• It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.

  John Burroughs

  Winter, Fire, Air

  John Burroughs (1875). “Winter Sunshine”, p.14

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• No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.

  Frank Bolles

  Spring, Winter, Knowing

  Frank Bolles (1896). “At the north of Bearcamp Water Chronicles of a stroller in New England from July to December”

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• God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

  Heraclitus

  Summer, God, Peace

  "Fragments (Fragment 67)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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• "Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it."

  Henry David Thoreau

  Winter, Tree, Looks

  Henry David Thoreau (1962). “Journal”

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• There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring.

  William Browne

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  William Browne (1845). “Britannia's Pastorals”, p.256

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• There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Winter, Mlb

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• Nothing burns like the cold.

  George R. R. Martin

  Winter, Cold, Cool Weather

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.16, Bantam

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• People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Happy, Summer

  'The Three Sisters' (1901) act 2

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• In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.

  John Burroughs

  Stars, Winter, Moon

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.123, Courier Corporation

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• Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

  Stanley Crawford

  Winter, Thinking, Luxury

  Stanley Crawford (1992). “A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm”, p.55, UNM Press

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• Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

  Ruth Stout

  Country, Winter, Snow

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• I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

  Will Rogers

  Atheist, Winter, Thinking

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• Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

  Willa Cather

  Country, Lying, Winter

  1918 My Antonia, bk.2, ch.7.

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• The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

  John Burroughs

  Summer, Winter, June

  John Burroughs (1875). “Winter Sunshine”, p.53

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• I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.

  Bill Watterson

  Winter, Bad Mood, Cold

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• Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Winter, Blow

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 174

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• One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff.

  Shirley Ann Grau

  Winter, Pet, Stuff

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• Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Strong, Holiday, Winter

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

  Ruth Stout

  Summer, Country, Spring

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• There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.

  Billy Connolly

  Travel, Winter, Scotland

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• Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Summer, Nature, Spring

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.73, Lulu.com

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• We really can't boil a man's life down to seasonal divisions of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Seasons cycle perennially, and we enjoy them because they recur. We should understand a man's life this way too. An elderly person may yet see new springs and summers. On the other hand, some young people never escape winter. Others become ensnared by their own private autumns.

  Hideo Kojima

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

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• For the third year in a row, the United States has set a record for winter warmth, federal scientists reported yesterday. With an average temperature of 38.4 degrees Fahrenheit, the three-month period of December 1999 through February 2000 was the warmest winter season in the last 105 years in the contiguous 48 states, the scientists said. That mark slightly surpassed the previous record of 37.8 degrees, set a year ago.

  William K. Stevens

  Winter, Average, Years

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