Hal Borland

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen.

— Hal Borland

Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.

— Hal Borland

He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history.

— Hal Borland

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

— Hal Borland

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

— Hal Borland

Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all.

— Hal Borland

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

— Hal Borland

Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.

— Hal Borland

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in…

— Hal Borland

Nature seems to look after her own only up to a certain point; beyond that they are supposed to fend for themselves.

— Hal Borland

For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing…

— Hal Borland

There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension.

— Hal Borland

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

— Hal Borland

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

— Hal Borland

The owl, that bird of onomatopoetic name, is a repetitious question wrapped in feathery insulation especially for Winter delivery.

— Hal Borland

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the…

— Hal Borland

If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water…

— Hal Borland

Listen to it, and you are hearing the mighty currents of the air rushing down the latitudes of the earth, currents from…

— Hal Borland

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a…

— Hal Borland

All man has to do is cooperate with the big forces, the sun, the rain, the growing urge. Seeds sprout, stems grow,…

— Hal Borland

Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime…

— Hal Borland

You fight dandelions all weekend, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom,…

— Hal Borland

There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the…

— Hal Borland

Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth,…

— Hal Borland

Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity…

— Hal Borland

Of all the everyday plants of the earth, grass is the least pretentious and the most important to mankind. It clothes the…

— Hal Borland

When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their…

— Hal Borland

I grew up in those years when the Old West was passing and the New West was emerging. It was a time…

— Hal Borland

A frontier is never a place; it is a time and a way of life.

— Hal Borland

All our yesterdays are summarized in our now, and all the tomorrows are ours to shape.

— Hal Borland

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

— Hal Borland

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a…

— Hal Borland

Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.

— Hal Borland

Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street...by a gusty wind, and the gabble of…

— Hal Borland

March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes and a laugh in her voice.

— Hal Borland

As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this.

— Hal Borland

He who walks may see and understand. You can study all America from one hilltop, if your eyes are open and your…

— Hal Borland

Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.

— Hal Borland

For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea…

— Hal Borland

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every…

— Hal Borland