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“One can follow the sun, of course,
but I have always thought
that it is best to know some winter, too,
so that the summer, when it arrives,
is the more gratefully received.”
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Beatriz Williams
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“But only a person in the depths of despair
neglected to look beyond winter to the spring
that inevitably followed,
bringing back color and life and hope.”
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Mary Balogh
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“A moment of peace and silence,
breathing in and out the frigid air,
watching daylight seep into the forest,
hearing the first chatter of distant crows,
the wind sighing over the snow
and through the fir and pine branches
and the twittering of chickadees
as they flitted in little tribes from tree to tree.”
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Mike Bond
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Photos by Woodland Gnome 2017
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Forest Garden 