And don't think the garden loses it's ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots down there are riotous. ~  Rumi

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

 ''Nature looks dead in winter because her life is gathered into her heart. She withers the plant down to the root that she may grow it up again fairer and stronger. She calls her family together within her inmost home to prepare them for being scattered abroad upon the face of the earth.'' ~Hugh Macmillan

 ''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

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

“Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.”~ Louisa May Alcott