Sloane, Autumn Colors, 1975
Our heads are often bowed down with the material burdens of
life, but we know that all through the ages thinking people have found time to
look upward and to seek peace and solace in the panorama of weather. Emerson
called the sky the daily bread of his eyes. Ruskin called it almost human in
its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its
infinity. Lincoln said he could not imagine a man looking up at the sky and
denying God. These spiritual qualities of weather frequently outweight the adverse
influences that rain and snow have on our daily lives.
Eric Sloane, from Eric Sloane's Weather Book
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