"It is indeed extremely unlikely that two complex snowflakes will look exactly alike. It's so extremely unlikely, in fact, that even if you looked at every one ever made you would not find any exact duplicates." - Kenneth Libbrecht in Ken Libbrecht's Field Guide to Snowflakes
Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together. - Author Unknown
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. - Zen Proverb
Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky, it turns and turns to say goodbye! - Alexander Selkirk
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake. - Francis Bacon Sr.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. - Henry David Thoreau
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. - Voltaire
They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? - Jeanette Winterson.

The Guinness World Records list the world's largest snowflakes as those that fell in January 1887 at Fort Keogh, Montana. Allegedly, one snowflake measured 38 cm (15 inches) wide.
During most small snowstorms, billions of snowflakes fall.

Poem

Brightness

Magical snowflake from the the sky
Drifting down, floating, oh my
Brightening the world from above
Wow, I truly think I'm in love

Snow makes the world a brighter place
Filling the land with white lace
Creating hope where there was none
Glistening brightly in the sun