25 Many of the phenomena of winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. David Thoreau 27 Four dry logs have in them all the circumstances necessary to a conversation for 4 or 5 hours. Let us love winter , for it is the spring of genius. L. Veninga 29 Laziness has many disguises. We grow great by dreams.
All big men are dreamers.
They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of nature.