Graham Urquhart Snow Heads South as Severe Weather Cripples Scotland* They say that each and every snowflake is unique. A fleeting existence of transmuted form, that can be returned to the ether, by an outstretched hand or a child’s tongue. And yet... this mute landscape, of impotent planes, cars and trains, reminds us: We are only part of Nature. Not apart in our cocooned, wired, high-tech world, that can only curl up and whimper unable to comprehend the collective force of this beautiful whiteness.
January 2011. * Channel 4 News headline, Tuesday 7th December, 2010.
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