INSIGHTS Hear/Say Key quotes about WINTER By Staff Monday, December 16, 2019 12:00 AM “My old grandmother always used to say, summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.” – George R.R. Martin Image via Henry Söderlund/Wikimedia Commons “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” – Anne Bradstreet Image via The Duodecimos/Wikimedia Commons “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” – Lewis Carroll Image via Oscar Gustave Rejlander/ Wikimedia Commons “Kindness is like snow—it beautifies everything it covers.” – Kahlil Gibran Image via Wikimedia Commons “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 long, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.” – Ruth Stout Image via Janet von Dobeneck/Wikimedia Commons “To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.” – Aristotle Image via Alvaro Marques Hijazo/Wikimedia Commons