“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different.” – J.B. Priestley.

“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.” – Henry David Thoreau.

“The forest knows Old Man Winter well, aged wonder chatting for a spell.” – Angie Weiland-Crosby.

“I prefer winter and Fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show, ” – Andrew Wyeth.

“You need special shoes for hiking – and a bit of a special soul as well.” – Terri Guillemets.