Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan Quote

The snow-crystals are the blossoms of inorganic nature.... A wreath of snow is thus, indeed, a bank of flowers; and we little think, when walking over its cold and barren surface, that we are treading down at every step a tiny garden.


Two Worlds Are Ours, Chapter XVII (p. 273), Macmillan & Company Ltd. 1880


The snow-crystals are the blossoms of inorganic nature.... A wreath of snow is thus, indeed, a bank of flowers; and we little think, when walking...

The snow-crystals are the blossoms of inorganic nature.... A wreath of snow is thus, indeed, a bank of flowers; and we little think, when walking...

The snow-crystals are the blossoms of inorganic nature.... A wreath of snow is thus, indeed, a bank of flowers; and we little think, when walking...

The snow-crystals are the blossoms of inorganic nature.... A wreath of snow is thus, indeed, a bank of flowers; and we little think, when walking...