"Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer."

Appreciation, June, May, Snow, Summer

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"Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer."

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"Every once in a while God allows you to stub your toe as a kind reminder to be grateful for the miraculous body attached to it."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Appreciation, Gratitude, Truth, Happiness, Inspirational

"Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or experience the reversal of it. It is only then that I can even begin to understand its majesty and cherish it in the manner I should have all along."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Appreciation, Truth, Inspirational, Life, Power

"If you want to know the value of a day, ask someone who could not find food to eat or water to drink for a whole day when he is hungry."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Appreciation, Value, Day, Gratitude, Perspective

"Water on earth came from space. Everything which is there was once upon a time not there and everything which is there shall return again to wherever they come from! When you see a beautiful ocean, or beautiful anything, remember this and appreciate them well!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Appreciation, Truth, Life, Wisdom, Inspirational

"Many things that don't really mean so much of anything, are wonderful."

C. JoyBell C., American Author

Appreciation, Wonder, Life, Meaning, Perspective

"Fantasizing about the future is not wrong until and unless you are not missing the beauty of the present!"

Harrish Sairaman, Indian Author

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"When we don't see the value of a thing, we don't put the protective edge."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"I have enjoyed the years enormously in Cleveland and especially in Baltimore."

Art Modell, American Businessman

Appreciation, Years

"It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author

Appreciation, Change, Neglect, Values

"I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models."

Solomon Ortiz, American Politician

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"I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball."

Now,

"As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone."

Work, Appearance, Energy, Trying

"Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured."

Energy,

"Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch."

Being,

"I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work."

Work, People, Public

"Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality."

Quality, Snow, Winter

"It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store."

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"The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break."

Art, Violence

"My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made."

Nature, Art, Time, Growth

"People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city."

People,