“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”– Carl Reiner Related Quotes “Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson “A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.”– Umberto Eco “Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.”– Jonathan Swift