110Japanese quotation 名言
雪は天から送られた手紙である
ゆきはてんからおくられたてがみであるYuki wa ten kara okurareta tegami de aru
“Snow is a letter sent from the sky.”
The meaning
Each flake tells, by its shape, the temperature and moisture of the clouds it crossed. The physicist read a message in it: nature writes, for those who know how to look.
At the origin
Words of physicist Nakaya Ukichirō (1900-1962), pioneer of snow-crystal science, who created the first artificial snowflake.
The characters
- 雪 yukisnow
- は watopic marker
- 天 tensky, heaven
- から
- 送られた
- 手紙
- である
はParticleMarks the topic: what the sentence is about — “as for…”.
In practice
Observe one detail of nature like a letter to decipher.