Day 4 – Gilt
“Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then the shadow sweeps it away. You know you’re alive. […]
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“Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then the shadow sweeps it away. You know you’re alive. […]
“The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.” ~ Luc de Clapiers
Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall. ~ Alice Cary
“There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes […]
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
Cold indeed, and labor lost:Then farewell heat, and welcome frost! ~ William Shakespeare
“I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost.” ~ Charlotte Bronte
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.~ John Burroughs