Quotes About Icecaps

Though our setting for all these essays has been winter, our true subject has been time. We share a sense of timeless winter, of eternal winter as the place where time stands still, the poles as places permanently outside of our dailiness, the snow as nature's secret…we could lose the polar icecaps but would not stop hearing winter music.

Parisians and polar icecaps have a lot in common except that polar icecaps are warmer to strangers.